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nušāsana and the Kavyānušāsana are more famous, The Chandonušāsana", is divided into eight chapters and has altogether 7.64 verses. It deals not only with Sanskrit metres, but also with Prakrit and Apabhramsa metres. Hemacandra also wrote a Vrtti on it. The Kāvyānusasana7 is a work on Rhetoric, also in eight chapters and 208 Sūtras. It is a great work on this rather difficult subject. This work also has a Vriti by the writer himself, called by the name Alamkāracūdamaņi and there is another commentary on it, also by the author himself, called Viveka. The author acknowledges his debt to Mammața and Bhoja, and like all the works of Hemacandra, this particular work also was written in easy, graceful language.
Hemacandra was not only a great authority on Grammar and Rhetoric, but also a conscious historian and his Dvyd. śrāyakāvya 8, is the first historical work on Gujarat. It is actually, as the name indicates, a poem with a double purpose. It was written to illustrate the rules of his SiddhaHema grammar. The first twenty chapters, written in Sanskrit indirectly relate the history of Gujarat before Kumārapāla and the last eight chapters, written in Prakrit, are on Kumāra pāla, his royal patron. We should remember, in this connexion, that before Hemacandra, no writer ever seriously attempted to write a connected account of the early history of Gujarat. And this is the reason why this poem of that great Master has a unique importance.
The first chapter deals with the origin of the Caulukyas and in the next few (I-V) we learn about the exploits of Mūlarāja I, the founder of that dynasty. The 6th Sarga throws light on Cāmundarāja and the 7th deals with Durlabha and Vallabha. The 8th Sarga throws light on Bbima I. The 9th Sarga gives a lot of information not only on Bhima I, but also on Paramāra Bhoja and the Cedi king Karna. The struggle between these three rulers has also been referred to, in which Bhoja had to suffer a serious reverse. This Sarga throws light also on the Caulukya
