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He has a command on various branches of Indian learning particularly thoses of Jainism. Besides Veda and Vedānga, he has alluded to its various reading liko Kramanātha and the allusions of the Vedic secrs like Yājñavalkya. Hemacandra has referred to a number of Vcdic sacrifices which can only be traced in Kalpa literature. (For details see; NARANG, S. P. Hemacandra's Dvyāśrayakävya; A literary and cultural study pp. 24 ff)
All the planets and their conjunctions with other upagrahas and rāšīs are also alluded. Besides casual references of various systems of orthodox systems of Indian philoscphy, hc has made allusions to Ayurveda, Dharmaśāstra, Arthaśāstra and Kāmaśāstra which are essentially as ingredients by Indian poets particularly Sanskrit poets. A number of other śāstras like Music and Dance; Āśvaśāstra particularly varieties of horses, Gajaśāstra particularly characteristics of good clephants are alluded by Hemacandra. He has quoted a work Vācaspatīyam on the sciences of elephants
His mythological allusions not only exhibit his study of the Epics and the Purānas but he has also alluded to folk-lore prevelant in his times The rare allusions consist of some stories about Devāpi; a number of cpithets of Indra; Kārtavīryārjuna; a number of Rudras, the lost concept of Varuna; a variety of forms of Visnu and his incarnations, Lord Siva and Skanda. Some Vedic deities like Apām Napāt, Aśvinau are also alluded. A number of the
