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1 SIDDHASENA DIVAKARA
(h) Hema Candra and Yaso Vijayaji.
Hema Candra: The greatest scholar the wellknown Acarya, Hema Candra, bearing the title of Sarva-Tantra-Swa-Tantra, clearly imitated, and kept before himself as models, Dwatriṁsikas of Siddhasena while composing his own two Dwatrimsikās. This is clear when we just cast a glance at the beginning of these works (Dwātriṁśikās)'. In his Stotra Sakalârhata Pratiṣṭhāna, Hema Candra kept before him as a model the Stotra of Swayambhu written by Samanta-Bhadra, and Hema Candra's work is an imitation, on a small scale, of Swayambhu. But admitting this, the fact remains that in the two Dwitrimsikus named Ayogavyavaccheda and Anyayogavyavaccheda, Hema Candra has chiefly taken his inspiration from the works of Siddhasena. He has openly declared Siddhasena to be the greatest poet, and it can be said that this appreciation is in no small measure, is due to his being influenced by the Dwatrimsikäs of Siddhasena.
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Yasovijayji: The last of the greatest Jaina scholars, and a person who in various ways rendered signal service to Jaina literature and paid a rich contribution to it, Vacaka Yasovijayaji. Yasovijayaji who "क सिद्धसेनस्तुतयो महार्था अशिक्षितालापकला व चैषा । zuifà qufâ¶à: qaz4; zaozfamra fagi ma: 11
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Ayo. 3.
Even the commentator Mallisena suggests the point in which Hemacandra has drawn inspiration from Siddhasena. Vid Syadvada-Manjari p. 2.
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