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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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(6] Prabandhag arc regarded as historical anecdotes. LPS displays a good deal of bearings on history, and furnishes so many fresh historical pints, which require investigation in the light of other sources of bistorical information, and, if supported by future researches, tend to throw considerable new light on mediseval liistory.
17) IPS throws much light on contemporary society also.
[8] The language and style of 1.PS are brimming with the peculiarities of the so called " Jaina Sanskuit ".
19] Thus LPS is an important Probandha text displa ving a very early stage of Pradandha literature, presupposing one of the binown prominent Prahandha works, delineating a sufficiently clçar picture of contemporary sociсty, and having considerable bearings on mediaeval history.
(10] As will be scen from Appendix " A", the text of LPS furnishes a good deal of material highly significant and interesting from linguistic and lexicographical points of view.
i11] As such the Laghu-prabandha-saxgraka inakcs inceed a very useful, interesting and enlightening addition to the Prabandha literature, Sinbibing to the brim as it does all the peculiarities of the Prabandha-style and of the so ealled " Jaina Sanskrit". Being very important especially from the historical, cultural and linguistic points of view, il is expected to inspire scholars to try to unearth more and more precious literary jewels of its type which outwardly appear dark and filthy but yield a powerful and wholesonie fash of light when brusled and rubbed and scratched in an appropriate manner.
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