His Works (Acarya Sri Vijay Labdhisurisvarji Maharaj)

V. G. Nair's article outlines the extensive literary and philosophical contributions of Acarya Sri Vijay Labdhisurisvarji Maharaj, whose works span devotional literature, philosophical treatises, and biographical accounts. The main argument is that Acarya Labdhi-surisvarji Maharaj was a prolific author and commentator who dedicated his life to the study and elucidation of Jaina philosophy, logic, and religious practices, often responding to contemporary intellectual and religious challenges. The evidence for this is the sheer volume and variety of his writings, which Nair categorizes into works such as Stavanas, Sajjhayas, Puja Sangraha, and Meru-Trayodasit, composed in Gujarati, Hindi, Sanskrit, and Urdu. His most monumental scholarly effort is detailed as the Nyayagamanusarint, a four-volume Sanskrit commentary on Jaina Logic. This work involved fourteen years of painstaking labor to separate the original text, attributed to Acarya Mallavadi, from the commentary of Simha Nandi. The article notes that Mallavadi, a foremost logician, composed the original about 1600 years ago, and Simha Nandi later wrote a commentary on it. Acarya Labdhi-surisvarji's own commentary, Nyaya Prakasa, consists of approximately eighty thousand stanzas, a feat necessitated by the scarcity of manuscripts of Simha Nandi's commentary at the time. The sources discussed include not only the primary texts of Jaina logic but also the works of contemporary figures like Swami Dayananda, whom the Acarya countered in his Dayanand-Kutark-Timir-Tarini. Additionally, the article lists numerous unpublished manuscripts, discourses delivered in Delhi and Ludhiana, and biographical works by his contemporaries, such as Kavikula Kirita by Acarya Bhuvana Tilaka Suri and Yaso-Gatha by Muni Rajyash, which document his life and mission.

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