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Introduction
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of Jayasimha was a Pandita named Utsäha who was a great grammarian and whose learning was even famous in Kāsmīra (See p. CCLIII ). * It was this Utsaha who was sent again by the Kaşmira panditas with the eight grammars from Kāṣmīra, from which Hemachandra compiled his work. It will not be an altogether wild guess if I suggest that some of Hemachandra's teachers might have been Kasmirian Panditas and even Utsäha may be one of them. The same suggestion is supported by the fact that the sutras of the Kāvyānuṣāsna are based upon the Kavyaprakaṣa of Mammata, and that, after discussing the theory of Rasa by quoting verbatim passages from the Natyavedavivṛti, Hemachandra says in the Viveka in so many words "We follow Abhinavaguptapāda "; Abhinavagupta and Mammața both of them were the luminaries of Kāṣmīra in learning.
After Somachandra became Hemachandrasūri, his mother Pāhiṇī, we are told by the Pra. Cha., entered the holy order. At the request of Hemachandra she was seated on a simhasana (seat of honour) - a rare honour to a nun due to her son's greatness (vs. 61-63).
Now we come to the question as to when and how Hemachandra was first introduced to Jayasimha.
If we accept, on the authority of the P. C. (p. 67) and that of the Pra. Cha., that Hemachandra was present at the time of the Kumudachandra debate, we can say
*The fact that one of the earliest commentaries of Mammaṭa's Kavyaprakasa, viz:-the Samketa of Manikyachandra was composed in Gujarat confirms the fact that there was intimate contact between Gujarat and Kasmira in matters of learning.
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