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Kavyanusasara pupils like Mahendrasūri, Ramachandra, Gunachandra and others who were only next to him in learning.
The Pra. Cha. supplies us with a brief but realistic description of the audiance-hall of Hemachandra which was something like an Academy of Letters. The occasion is the coming of Devabodha - the Bhāgavata to see Hemachandra.
“He (Devabodha ) went to the audience - hall ( Āsthāna) of Sri Hemachandrasūri. There the great poets were busy composing new works; great number of words were being written upon a number of patřikā - pattas ( writing boards ); discussions with one another were going on about the derivation of words and illustrations were being quoted from old poets. It was the residence of Brahmollāsa, the parental abode of Bháratī, a place where the learned were well provided. +
The Samskrta Dvyāsraya Kāvya must have been begun after the completion of the Siddha-Hema. But this epic of twenty cantos must have been composed at intervals. How many cantos were written before the death of Jayasimha we cannot exactly say. The last five cantos which are devoted to Kumārapāla, were, no doubt, written in the middle of Kumārapāla's reign; but it is a question whether all the first fifteen
* अन्यदाभिनवग्रन्थगुम्फकुलमहाकवौ । पट्टिकापट्टसंघातलिख्यमानपदव्रजे ॥. शब्दव्युत्पत्तयेऽन्योन्यं कृतोहापोहबन्धुरे । girona - EET-E6217stka76 11 ब्रह्मोल्लासनिवासेऽत्र भारतीपितृमन्दिरे । श्रीहेमचन्द्रसूरीणामास्थाने सुस्थकोविदे ॥
Pra. Cha. p. 314, vs. 292-294.
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