INTRODUOTION 35 Amara 'sati, Amarendu, etc. We shall now endenvour 10 give a detailed account of some of his works; for, as is well said good poco is "nothing but a permanent record of the inacr life of the poet and a reflection of the age and society in which he lives." 1. Caturvitsati-Jinendra-Sartsipta-Caritāni. This is the name given to the 21 poems briefly surveying the epocli-making lives of the 24 Janas of the prosent arasarpis. This entire work has been reproduced here in the first appendix, althongh it precedes Hadnannuda mahakarya in composition (vide Sanskrit introduction p. 25). The catent of the work in Verses is 15 follois : (1) "5+114: (2) 31; (3) 31; (1) 1+29; (5) 31; (6) 1+29: (7) 31; (8) 28; (9) 30; (10) 31; (11) 331 (12) 29; (13) 32; (14) 32; (15) 32; (16) 1+4731 (17) 30; (18) 30; (19) 70; (20) 76; (21) 32; (22) 68; (23) I+104; and (24) 288. From the above it will appear that '17 pocons coniprise verses not exceeding 34. The ist, tlie 16tII, and the 19171 to the 24th (the last) cxcluding the 21st arc longer in extent, the 16th being the loogest. Out of these, with the exception of the 19th and the 20th, the rest deal with the summary of the lives of the five popular Jinds of the Jainas. Generally speaking, the main topics treated in almost every poem, 'mostly composed i Seo Sanskrit introduction p. 99, 2 Soe Padminundensbak&fps (I . 67.) Tuts recme to bsta boon used for tuo sake of the netre as udh Is A Sgaonym of cardira. 3 This doublo sumbering is mostly duo to us ezardly following the 6-YS.
- The 2nd to the Gifteea, the 17th, tho 18th, aod the 21st.
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