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BENEDICTION ON THE PART OF THE AUTHOR OF THE COMMENTARY
1. Those in contact with the road of logical proof, to whom, bright with the weapons of brilliant reasons,
The explained meaning, rising from the Laudation created by the teacher Hema, is dear: To them, having selves untouched by fear arising from the demons of bad Methods,
Is possible, without fatigue, the attainment of the city of the Jain Scripture1), which gives an auspicious glory.
2. That, in survey of the profound meaning of the sayings of the Holy Sri-Hemaséri, Ocean of the Fourfold Knowledge), my vision has been advanced,
With my considerable lowness overcome by very long persistence in honouring the religion, Surely is a growth of the miraculous collyrium of the particles of dust of my guru's feet3). (243)
3. By me composed, with a few select topics, comparable to heart-delighting flowers, arisen on the trees of other and other treatises*),
This commentary on the Laudation of the last Jina may the pure-hearted carry like a garland at their hearts.
4. Whatever here through the fault of intellectual dullness has been stated in contradiction of logical proof and the Canon,
That may men of noble minds, putting aside spite and applying benevolence, correct.
5. He in regard to whom, from his Three-world-wide fulness of ideas, the inference 'On earth he is the guru of the ambrosia-enjoyers') arises without pretence, And joyously praising whose belchings of sayings as ambrosia those gods Celebrate the same (inference), as most surpassingly pithy with consistency,
6. May that breast-ornament Kaustubha of the Govinda"), who is the Nagendra school, That all worshipful Sari Udayaprabha have joy!
7. By Sri-Mallisena-suri, the sun of the sky of that sect,
Was composed in the Saka year measured by the Manus and the sun (1214)7), on the Dipa festival, on a Saturday, this commentary.
1) A justified intimation that the treatise serves as a sure guide to Jain doctrine.
2) Hemacandra's quasi-Omniscience embraced the four departments of Grammar, Scripture, Poetics and Logic: see note 8) supra to Preface.
3) Acknowledgment of indebtedness to the Udayaprabha of p. 9 supra.
* Prior literature abundantly used and cited by Mallisena.
*) Sc. the gods, whose guru is Brhaspati or Närada; cf. Preface, v. 2.
*) Breast-ornament of Visņu.
7) A. D. 1292 (Manu 14, Suns = 12).
