Vivāhavallabhamahākāvya : A lost Jaina Sanskrit Poem

A lost Jama Sanskrit poem Satya Vrat While the Jaina church occupied itself in the enrichment of literature, the laity took meticulous care to preserve it through various devices such as multiplication of Mss and establishment of libraries in different parts of the country. It is a tribute to their catholicity and sagacity that some

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सत्यव्रत एक लुप्त जैन संस्कृत महाकाव्य का परिचय देते हैं, जिसका विषय नेमिनाथ और राजीमती का प्रस्तावित विवाह है। यह केवल सत्रहवें सर्ग से ज्ञात है, जो अगरचन्द नाहटा के बीकानेर-संग्रह की पन्द्रहवीं शताब्दी की खण्डित प्रति में सुरक्षित है; उसी सर्ग में राजीमती का उपदेश और आत्मज्ञान वर्णित है। Satya Vrat reports a lost Jaina Sanskrit mahakavya on Neminatha's proposed marriage to Rajimati, known only from its seventeenth canto in a defective fifteenth-century paper manuscript in Agarchand Nahata's Bikaner collection. The surviving canto carries Rajimati's admonition to Nemi and her turn to self-knowledge.

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