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and simple. (Vs. 8, 17). Another of his hymns is the Panca-Kalyānajina-Stotra also called Caturvimsatijina-Stava in 26 Gāthās, and is much inferior to his previous song. It describes the various characteristics of the 24 Jinas in the usual enumerative fashion. His Vira-stava is composed in 44 Mālini verses and is tolerably good. In his Ullāsikkama-stava he praises the two Jinas Ajita and śānti.
One of the famous pupils of Hemacandra is Rāmacandra who succeeded him and met a cruel death at the hands of the successor of king Kumārapāla. Rāmacandra is more famous for his Sanskrit dramas and dramatic theory, while many of his hymns are in Sanskrit. The only hymn of his in mixed Sanskrit and Prākrit is the Adideva-Stava a small piece of 8 Gāthās and not a great production.
Dharmaghosa is chiefly famous for his many hymns. He belonged to the Tapāgaccha; Devendra was his teacher and Vidyānanda one of his costudents. He often calls himself by his other name Dharmakīrti, often occurring at the end of his poems. He became Upādhyāya in A. D. 1263, Sūri in A. D. 1271, and died in A. D. 1300, enjoying a long life.
His chief work is no doubt the Rsimandala-Stotra, which is not exactly a hymn but rather approaches a chronicle or a Pattāvali. It purports to give the praise of the various sages who obtained liberation or various 'heavens, as the result of accepting asceticism and the life of a monk at the hands of the various Tīrthankaras. The scope of the work is very wide. The author gives the various sages that were converted to Jainism by Rsabha and others, the contemporary monks of Ajita, Sāgara, Malli and the vast number of the pupils of Mahāvīra. Much of his information he draws from the canonical books like Nāyādhammakahão, Viāhapannatti and others, while the successors of Mahāvīra upto Devardhigani and Munivrsabha he draws from the Kalpasūtra and the Nandi-Sūtra-Pattāvali. In the verses of praise of these various sages the author gives suggestions about their personal lives. He deals at great length with the lives of Sthūlabhadra and Vajrasvāmi the two patriarchs of great popularity. The language of the hymn is easy and the author describes the sages in as simple a manner as possible. But the vast amount of mythological allusions makes it a little difficult to follow them unless the reader is already familiar with them.
Other hymns of this author are of no great value. There is a short collection of Stotras called Jinastotrāni giving the various births of Rsabha, Candraprabha, śāntinātha, Munisuvrata, Neminātha, Pārśva and Mahāvīra, the