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torical information, it is written in a kävya style134. More important than this is the Kumārapalaprabandha135, of Jinamandanagani, the pupil of Somasundara of the Tapā gaccha. It was written in V.S. 1492, in mixed Sanskrit prose and verse. This writer freely used earlier works on Kumārapāla. This work has been described as a loose compilation of the select portions of some texts. Even then, we cannot deny the usefulness of his work 138.
Several Jain writers were contemporaries of those two great men viz., Vastupāla and Tejaḥpāla. They also befrierded non-Jain writers like Someśvara, Harihara and Nānaka. Among the Jain writers, who came in direct contact with them, we may mention Arisimba, Amaracandra, Vijaya. senasūri, Udayaprabha, Jinabhadra, Naracandrasűri, Narendraprabhasüri, Bålacandra, Jayasimbasūri, Mānikyacandra and others,
Somešvara, though a scion of a Vedic Brahmin family, was in the good books of Vastupāla. He has praised him in the last canto of his Surathotsava137. His Kirtikaumudil 38, in a historical mahākavva in honour of his patron Vastupāla188. Although this is not a Jain work, its last two cantos show Someśvara's deep knowledge of the Jain doctrine of Abiṁsā. The last or the 9th canto (sarga) describes Vastupāla's pilgrimage to Satruñiaya and Urjayanta. Someśvara also wrote Prašastis at Abu2 40 and Girnar111, which also prove his close association with these two famous brothers and also the Jain religion, Two othei Brahmins, who were befriended by Vastupāla, were Harihara'and Nānaka 143, whose works have not, however, survived. It appears from the Prabandhakosa144 that Harihara was a Bengali Brahmin, who migrated from Gauda country to Gujarat, during the days of Viradbavala and Vastupāla. We are told by Rājasekhara245 that even Someśvara was jealous of him. That poet has, however, mentioned Harihara in his Kirtikaumudi14 6. Some of the verses of Harihara have been quoted in the Prabandhakosa147. The same work148 also
