Moksha-Marg Prakashak-Hindi (iso15919 transliteration).

udyot hone lagā, tab jainadharmake prati dveṣ rakhanevāle brāhmaṇ vah sahan na kar sake aur
isaliye unhoṁne ek gupta ‘ṣaṛayaṁtra’ racā. unhoṁne śivapiṁḍīko ukhāṛakar jainoṁ par ‘ukhāṛ
ḍālanekā’ ārop lagāyā aur rājā mādhavasiṁhako, jainoṁke viruddha ukasākar krodhit kiyā.
rājāne satyāsatyakī kuch bhī jānakārī prāpta kiye binā hī krodhavaś sabhī jainoṁko rātrimeṁ
kaidakar liyā tathā unake prasiddha vidvān paṁḍit ṭoḍaramallajīko pakaṛakar mār ḍālanekā hukam
de diyā. tadanusār paṁḍitajīko hāthīke pām̐vake nīce kacaravākar maravā ḍālā aur unake śabako
śaharakī gaṁdakīmeṁ daṭavā diyā.

yah bāt pracalit hai ki jab paṁḍitajīko hāthīke pām̐vake nīce ṛālanemeṁ āyā aur

aṁkuśake prahārapūrvak hāthīko, unake śarīrako kacar ḍālaneko, prerit karanemeṁ āyā tab hāthī
ekadam cillākar ruk gayā. is tarah do bār vah aṁkuśake prahār khā cukā, parantu paṁḍitajī
par apane pām̐vakā prahār nahīṁ kiyā. us par aṁkuśake tīsare prahār paṛanekī taiyārī thī,
vahān̐ paṁḍitajīne hāthīkī daśā dekhakar kahā ki – he gajendra! terā koī aparādh nahīṁ; jahān̐

prajāke rakṣakane hī aparādhī – niraparādhīkī parīkṣā kiye binā mār ḍālanekā hukam de diyā

hai, vahān̐ tu kyoṁ vyartha hī aṁkuśake prahār sahatā hai? saṁkoc choṛ aur terā kārya kara.
yah vākya sunakar hāthīne apanā kām kiyā. rājā mādhavasiṁh (pratham)ko jab is
‘ṣaṛayaṁtra’ke bāremeṁ jñāt huā tab unheṁ bahut hī duḥkh huā aur apane adham kr̥tya par
ve bahut pachatāye.

paṁḍitajīke jīvanakā mukhya dhyey ek sva-par kalyāṇakā hī thā. antaraṁgameṁ

kṣayopaśamaviśeṣase tathā bāhyameṁ tarka vitarka pūrvak anek śāstroṁke adhyayanase āpakā vītarāg-
vijñān bhāv itanā barḥ gayā thā ki sāṁsārik kāryoṁse ve svayaṁ prāyaḥ virakta hī rahā karate
the; aur dhārmik kāryoṁmeṁ itane tallīn rahā karate the ki bāhya jagatakī aur āsvādya padārthoṁkī
unako kuch bhī sudh nahīṁ rahatī thī. is viṣayameṁ ek janaśruti aisī bhī hai ki – jis samay

āp graṁth racanā kar rahe the, us kālameṁ āpakī mātājīne khādya padārthoṁmeṁ chah māsase namak
ḍālanā choṛ diyā thā. cha mās paścāt śāstraracanākī orase āpakā upayog kuch haṭate
ek din āpane mātājīse pūchā : ‘mājī! āj āpane dālameṁ namak kyoṁ nahīṁ ḍālā?’
yah sun mātājī bolī : ‘beṭā, maiṁ to cha māsase namak nahīṁ ḍālatī hūn̐’. yah sab likhanekā
tātparya itanā hī hai ki, āpake samayameṁ āp ek mahān dharmātmā, śreṣṭha, paropakārī, nirabhimānī
tathā advitīy vidvān the. jainasamājake durbhāgyase hī aise mahātmākā asamay hī viyog huā,
parantu āpane svayaṁne to jīvanaparyanta jain samāj par ananya upakār kiyā hai aur isaliye

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