________________
gersit
૨૨
I, the beggar of the grace of saints and an humble disciple of the great sage Shastravisharada Jainacharya Vijaya Dharma Suri whose glory has been extolled by the erudite of the world for his great efforts for the propagation of the studies of Sanskrita and Präkrita and of religious emotion, and for literary service as well, who has been eulogized and saluted out of holy reverence and pure devotion by many western learned scholars whom he has obliged by helping in their literary service and studies, whose ideal character of saintly life has been bowed to by the Nareshas and officers of India, who was an incarnation of quietude, restraint and equanimity, and who of highly magnificent grandeur was endowed with the sense of universal brotherhood and auspicious austerity-I, Nyayavijaya have composed this Prakrita work. Now Indravijaya Suri possessed of the greatness by virtues, is well performing his duties as the successor of the great sage Guruji,Indravijayasuri who is renowned by the sig nificant titles of Itihasatattva-mahodadhi and Vidyavallabha etc., who is effulgent by intellectual power and lustre, and who has written many important works useful to the learned.[1-7]
