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________________ 166 ACARYA VIJAYAVALLABHASURI COMMEMORATION VOLUME Taim baliu Kama Tripura vidhvamsiu, pavanavegi jima tula/ Padmanabha puchai Somaiya Kethum Karayaum trisula//) "Dark Bhois were called for; and the pieces of Siva's linga were hauled up in the cart. Several pairs of bullocks were made to draw it; it was thus removed to Delhi. "O Rudra, in the times of yore you consumed the demons in the fire of your wrath; you spread punya in the world and removed the terror which oppressed the gods. "You burnt down Kama and destroyed Tripura just as wind blows away cotton. Padmanabha (the poet) asks you, O Somanatha, where have you laid up your trisula now?" The other outstanding poets of this period are Narsimha, the poetsaint, and Mirambai the immortal poetess of Rajasthan, whose poetry is the cherished heritage of India; Bhalana, the celebrated scholar who set Kadambari to verse; and the great Jaina writers Lavanyasamaya and Manikyasundara Suri. Of the latter writers Manikyasundara Suri is celebrated for his remarkable prose classic Pethvicandracaritra, which is an ornament of the Old Gujarati prose. It stands unique in the entire Old Gujarati literature on account of its dignified and mellifluous prose-style and the remarkable beauty of its composition. Numerous specimens of Old Gujarati prose have come to light, but of the ornate literary prose used by scholars of the mediaeval times, Pethvicandracaritra is almost the solitary example. VII From the 16th century A.D. Gujarati assumes almost its present linguistic form. This period is remarkable for its wealth of literature--the well-known Akhyanas of Premananda, reflecting the contemporary Gujarati life, the poetical romances of Samala, reminding us of the Kathasaritsagara and the Arabian Nights, and the great philosophical poems of Akho, and the delicately melodious and almost etherial lyrics of Dayaram. From the middle of the 19th century Gujarati language and literature undergo a fateful change on account of the influence of the English language and literature. The prose now became, under the influence of English, more cultivated and complex in nature, capable of expressing involved thoughts. The prose style could now vary from the declamatory and the narrative to the reflective. In content, the literature, which was so far restricted only to religion and allied topics, now embraced every Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org
| SR No. | 012060 |
| Book Title | Vijay Vvallabhsuri Smarak Granth |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya Mumbai |
| Publisher | Mahavir Jain Vidyalay |
| Publication Year | 1956 |
| Total Pages | 756 |
| Language | Hindi, Gujarati, English |
| Classification | Smruti_Granth & Articles |
| File Size | 24 MB |