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Introduction
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D. K.) which means a lord of Siddhis-super- natural powers. We shall have occasion to refer to this aspect when we came to the account of the D. K.
In addition to the inscriptions, and literary accounts, we have been utilizing up till now, we are fortunate in possessing, for this period, other sources of information which help us in arranging some of the events of his reign chronologically. These are the colophons of some of the contemporary manuscripts. This important material was first made known by Muni Sri Jinavijayaji in his address which he delivered as an Honorary Member of the Gujarat Sahitya Sabha.
As to the additional literary sources, we may note the Siddha - Hema grammar, the Deṣināmamála, the Chhandonuşăsana, and other works of Hemachandra; the Vagbhaṭālamkara of Vägbhața in which Jayasimha is referred to in about ten verses, the Ganaratna mahodadhi (completed in V. S. 1197-A. D. 1141) of Vardhamana sūri, some verses of another contemporary writer Sagarachandra quoted in the G. R. M., and the drama called Mudritakumudachandra of Yasaschandra which gives an account of the controversy held between Kumudachandra, a Diagambara Acharya and Devasuri, a Svetambara Acharya, and incidentally describes the learned assembly of Jayasimha and refers to some of its literary figures.
The Satärthakāvya of Somaprabhasūri – a contemporary of Kumarapala-has for one of its hundred interpretations Jayasimha as the subject.
Two Islamic writers also supply us with some useful material. One is the geographer Al-Idrisi,
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