Sabhāśṛṅgāra

This 17th-century Gujarati manuscript in Nāgarī script, titled *Mathā Iṣṭa Dvāra* (The Door to Desired Intellect), is a Jain didactic text attributed to a Jaina author, preserved in the Central Library, Baroda (Acc. No. 6072). The work exemplifies classical Jain śāstric literature through its ornate Sanskritized Gujarati prose, featuring elaborate *maṅgala* verses invoking Ādinātha and kevalajñāna, followed by didactic *subhāṣita*-style stanzas on ethical dualities—virtue and vice, truth and falsehood, proper and improper conduct—demonstrating the genre's characteristic deployment of paradox and natural imagery to illustrate karmic consequences. Notable textual features include extensive use of Sanskrit loanwords, complex compound formations, and the manuscript's physical condition (lacking a second folio, as noted in the library's Sanskrit marginalia), which attests to its historical circulation and preservation challenges.