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provided with almost all the then known branches of learning, round about the precincts. As we saw, the descriptions of the city by the D. K. and other contemporary and later works point to a high state of literary development. It was in this intellectual milieu that Hemachandra, the greatest intellectual of the age lived and did his work. He must have received immense benefit and impetus from such an environment, but he must have also found it very difficult to shine out amongst such a galaxy of learned men. This, probably, explains his tremendous literary outputencyclopaedic in its scope and accurate in detail.
When Hemachandra came on the scene many learned men of different religious persuasions had played or were playing their parts. We shall note some of these - as it will help us in forming an idea of the intellectual company which Hemachandra joined.
Some of the learned men of the times of Karņa and even Bhima I, it appears, were living in the early part of Jayasimha's reign, though for want of chronological information, we cannot exactly name them.
: We mentioned the two learned Brāhmaṇas of Madhya - deșa, Srīdhara and Srīpati known after their conversion to Jaina faith, as Jinesvara and Buddhisāgara who were responsible, through the good offices of Someșvara the Purohita and Jnānadeva the great Saiva Pontiff, in getting a footing in Anahillapura for the Suvihita monks of the Svetāmbara Jaina sect in teeth of opposition from the powerful and influential Chaityavāsins. We referred to the Samskệta grammar composed by Buddhisāgara and known after him. Jinesvara wrote
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