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Thirty-two verses in praise of the first Tīrthaṅkara, Ādinātha, composed by Kavikaṭāramalla Rāmacandrasūri, a disciple of Hemacandrasūri. A devotional hymn of the Śvetāmbara tradition celebrating the earliest of the twenty-four Jinas.
Twenty-five verses in praise of the Siddha, composed by the celebrated mystic poet Ānandaghana in the serpentine bhujaṅgaprayāta metre. A meditative work extolling the liberated souls who have transcended all karma and attained perfect knowledge.
Eleven verses in the āryā metre in praise of the Jina, composed by the prolific polymath Haribhadrasūri in a mixed Sanskrit–Prākṛta register known as sama-saṃskṛta-prākṛta. A testament to the classical bilingual literary tradition of Jaina scholarship.
A fourteenth-century text of twenty-four verses in Apabhraṃśa summarizing the sacred life of Mahāvīrasvāmī, the twenty-fourth and final Tīrthaṅkara of the present cosmic cycle. An important document of late medieval Jaina vernacular literary tradition.
A trilingual work in praise of the twenty-four Jinas, composed by Ratnakśekharasūri, spanning Saṃskṛta, Prākṛta, and Śaurasenī. A remarkable example of Jaina multilingual literary practice demonstrating mastery across three prestige registers of classical Jaina scholarship.
A witty enumeration of twenty-seven types of foolish conduct, composed by Ratnaśekharasūri in the anuṣṭubh metre. Framed as royal counsel, each verse catalogues a recognisable human folly — a rare specimen of Jaina didactic literature in a satirical register.
A Prākṛta eulogy of Mahāvīra in twenty-two verses by the celebrated commentator Abhayadevasūri, composed in anuṣṭubh (vv. 1–20, 22) and mālinī (v. 21). An important hymn from the Jaina Stotra Sandoha anthology, celebrating the qualities and enlightenment of the twenty-fourth Tīrthaṅkara.
A compiled anthology of three texts for the occasion of Mahāvīra's nirvāṇa: the Vīranirvāṇakālyāṇakastava of Jinaprabhasūri (19 verses, Sanskrit); the Dīpālikāstutūcatuṣṭayī of Guṇasāgaragaṇi (4 verses, Sanskrit); and an Apabhraṃśa passage from Vibudhśrīdhara's Vardhamānacarita on the same occasion.
Thirty-three verses in praise of Mahāvīra, composed by an unnamed disciple of Ratnākarasūri, employing the indravajrā metre for verses 1–32 and śārdūlavikrīḍita for the closing colophon verse. An elegant devotional work that weaves biography with philosophical reflection, published in Sambodhi Vol. 7.
A short compilation of four Sanskrit verses for the occasion of Jñānapañcamī (Kārtika Śukla Pañcamī), preserved in the collection of Puṇyavijaya. The verses invoke Jina, the Siddhas, and the goddess Ambikā in praise of śruta (canonical knowledge) and the merit accrued by observing the pañcamī fast.
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