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or Pr. verse is found in Ratnamandana-gani's नारीनिरासफाग ° In the नारीनिरास 9517 Sk. verses are the compositions of the writer himself, while in V. V. the alternating Sk. and Pk. Stanzas are the garfoas culled by the author from the works of eminent Sk. and Pk. poets who flourished before him. Another point of contrast is that while V. V. is entirely secular and erotic in tone, the aretfacra917 is given deliberately a religious and ascetic turn. This last point is important in the controversy about the Jaina or the non-Jaina authorship of the poem. It is argued that the poem is of non-Jaina authorship as it has no religious bias and it is so highly erotic that it cannot be the composition of a Jaina monk-poet. Of course, almost all the Mss. of the poem are found' in the bookcollections of Jaina monasteries. Moreover, it has been shown that the Jaina poets have taken interest in this poem, and have quoted and imitated its phraseology in the Phāgu' compositions which they have written.10 The only point in which they differ is that they have always given this form a religious turn by making it a vehicle for describing Neminātha-Rajimati legend or the Sthūlibhadra-Kos'ā legend, just as the Jaina writers did with 91 stories in works like agaarzen 11 Moreover, the Sk. and Pk. verses quoted are all, so far as they are known, from non-Jaina writers although the author could have quoted from the then existing numerous poenis of Jaina origin. Again as regards the authorship of the poem, one cannot agree with Mr. K. M. Munshi, that one para 9. Śri Jaina-Satya-Prakäs'a : Vol. 12., Combined 5th & 6th issues;
P. 165-173. : Pt. Ambālāl Premcand Saha' : siyay aj Faq Bja ang facia41791 af. He has also edited the text. Also Sāndesarā : Sireita 413-RİZE P. 69-75. See also Intró. P. 17 where the editer has expressed the idea that the Phāgu is deliberately given a religious
and ascetic turn. 10. Sārābhāi Nawāb : Review of V. V. : Jain Satya Prakās'a Vol. 2-3.
P. 114-118; also quoted in Forbes Gujarati Sabhā Journal Vol. I. IV. Jan-March 1937. P. 442-447 Trafferut : sqanaifruft : Yas'ovijaya Granth Mālā "Benaras : 1911 A. D. : P. 168. aeFafascesa . . . Bifogyot aut aing, ziqig Brfalle gara
- रूडए दोहग लागए आगए एह निवन्ध ॥५॥ Also see K. B. Vyāsa : V. V. (Pub. Tripathi ) Intro. P. XXIX.
foot-note. 40. 11. Vasudeva-Hindi (Guj. Trans.) B. J. Sandesara : Intro. P. S. foot-note
