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DEVENDRASTAVA: 3
SRI RṢIPALITA STHAVIRA AUTHORED
DEVENDRASTAVA
PREFACE
After reverentially bowing to all supreme spiritual conquerors, universal teachers and all virtuous Jinesvaras including the first Tirthankara (Lord Prophet Propounder of the Jaina faith) Rsabhadeva and the last-twenty-fourth Tīrthankara, Lord Mahāvīra, some lay follower of the faith, who was decidedly learned in scriptures and tenets of the faith, one early evening started sweetly singing the praise of pride-conquered Lord Vardhamana as his wife sat comfortably in front of him and listened, with folded hands, peacefully and reverentially.
EULOGY IN PRAISE OF LORD VARDHAMĀNA
Along with the celestial queens, whose foreheads are marked with vermilion and other auspicious marks, we, too, bow our heads at the feet of pride-conquered Lord Vardhamana.
The heavenly gods, whose crowns have come lose by bowing deeply and reverently, too, pay their obeisance at the feet of perfectly anger-calmed Lord Vardhamāna of uncomparable fame.
We constantly meditate upon the beauty of His (Lord Vardhamana's) beneficial feet, whose virtues have com pletely won over the thirty-two Devendras, the celestial kings of the heavenly gods.
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