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works are the Yatidinacharya in Prakrit and the Alankarasāra.48
Jayasekharasuri of Anchalagatchha composed the Upadesachintamani, Dhammilacharitamahākāvya and the Prabodhachintamani in one year. His other works are, the Jain Kumārasambhava, Satrunjayadwātrimsikā, Giranaradwātrimsikā,
Mahaviradwatrimsikā,
Kriyaguptastotra
Atmavabodhakulaka.49
The Prabodhachintamani,
referred to above, won him name and fame as a first class Gujarati poet. The Tribhuvanadipakaprabandha is his other known work in Gujarati. Jayasekharasūri was the second pupil of Mahendraprabhasūri and entered the order of Jain monks before V. S. 1418. (A. D. 1361-2)50
and
Jayasimhasūri, pupil of Mahendrasūris of Krishnarshigatchha, completed the Kumarapala Charita in V. S. 1422 (A. D. 1365-6) It deals
(48) Peterson, IV, 106; Kantivijaya Bhandara, Baroda; this Bhavadevasuri was probably the author of the Kalikacharyakatha (Peterson, I, 30)
(49-50) Dhruva K. H., Prachina Gurjara Kāvya, introduction, p. 23.
(51) This Mahendrasuri, being free from avarice, did not accept money; so he was called "Mahatma" by Muhammad Tughlak (1325-51) whose contemporary he was.-Jain Sahityano Itihasa, p. 440.
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