Vasupujya Charitam

Author(s): Jain Dharm Prasarak Sabha
Publisher: Jain Dharm Prasarak Sabha

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The Vasupujyacharita is written throughout. in Sloka, except the last stanzas of each of the. four cantos, which are in Vasantatilaka. The style is Auent, abounding in poetical conceits, and aiming at different kinds of alliteration (ETH). wich seems to have been greatly relished by Jain authors and readers. The language is correct on the whole and altogether not different from what wo meet with in other Jain Kavyas of the same character and period. 244 Sura and Chandra ) on the vow not to kill ( ahinsa ); the ninth (IV, 250-320: Hamsa King of Rajapuri) on sincerity ( satya ); the tenth (IV, 325-400: Laksmikunja) on the vow not to steal; the eleventh (IV, 405-466 : Nagila) on the vow of chastity etc; the twelfth ( IV, 471-533: Vidyapati) on the vow of limitation in possession ( aparigraha, parigrahapramana ); the thirteenth (IV, 537-595: the Simha merchant) on the vow of the directions (digvrata); the fourteenth (IV, 599-654: the Dharma child ) on row of concerning the continence in enjoyment of food etc (bhogopabhogavrata); the fifteenth (IV, 657-699: The Surasena and Mahasena princes) on the vow to refrain from unnecessary injury (anarthadandavirativrata); the sixteenth (IV, 704– 761: The Kesarin prince) on the vow with regard to time (samayika); the seventeenth (IV, 765-820 the pious minister Sumitra) on the vow of "drawing closer or conto acting every day the limits alreadı, laid down to the range of trate
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