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and directed him to go to Stambhanakapura (Cambay ?) where there was an image of Pârsvanâtha. He went there, bowed down before the image, and composed while standing the Namaskarad vâtrimśika or thirty-two bows," beginning with Jayatihuyana. The last two of these stanzas he was obliged to omit at the request of the deities, so that the Stotra or hymn now contains thirty only.
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The next head of the Gachchha was Jinavallabha. He had the eight grammars of Jinavallabha. Panini and others by heart and was conversant with the Mahâkâvyas or great poems, Meghadûta and others, as well as all the other kâvyas or poems, with the works on poetics of Rudrata, Udbhata, Dandin, Vâmana, Bhamaha, and others, the eighty-four dramatic plays, the whole of the Jyotiḥsastra, all metrical works such as those of Jayadeva and others, the Anekântajayapatakâ of Abhayadeva and other works that expounded the doctrines of Jinendra (i.c. Jainism), and with works of other systems of philosophy such as the Nyâya treatises Tarkakandali and Kiranâvali, and Samkaranandana and Kamalasila. He was regarded as a man of learning at Chitrakûṭa (Chittor), and many people, even such as belonged to other systems of religion, resorted to him and got their doubts cleared; (00., Appendix II.). Jinavallabha caused temples of Mahavira and Pârśvanâtha to be constructed at Chitrakuta and of Neminatha at Nagapura and Naravarapurî. On one occasion two Pandits from a foreign country went to the court of Naravarman, the grandson of Bhoja, at Dhârâ, and proposed some poetic riddle, which the Pandits of Narvarman were not able to solve. At the suggestion of a courtier the riddle was sent by the king to Jinavallabha, who solved it at once, and the solution was sent to Naravarman with all despatch. On this account, when after some time Jinavallabha went to Dhârâ, Nara
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