Dvyasrayakavya

Author(s): Satyapal Narang
Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publisher's Pvt Ltd New Delhi

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Dvyāśrayakävya
sauntering to escape Siddharāja, he happened to meet Hemacandra who prophesyed that he would acquire kingship in future. Kumarapala solemnly declared that if the prediction will happen true, he would become a devoted servant of Hemacandra for the whole of his life. Kumarapala fulfilled his declaration in his later life.
Rajasekhara1 has not eleboreted the account. In his opinion, when Kumārapāla accepted Hemacandra as his preceptor, the latter strived to get kingship for him. But according to Kumarapalacaritasangraha2 they happened to meet with the prophecy of Hemacandra and Kumārapāla promised to become a servant of Hemacandra.
Thus Hemacandra became a religio-political counsellor of Kumarapala who accepted him as a final authority in all religious, social and political affairs3.
ATTITUDE OF BRAHMAŅAS
Hemacandra was a great scholar and a supporter of Jainism who was given royal patronage. Brahmaņas felt jealous of him and satirised upon his scholarship and luxurious way of living. This satirical tendency of Brahmanas is noticed by all the annalists. Hemacandra endured all these satirical remarks and defended himself in humorous and argumentative style.
PROPAGATION OF JAINISM
Hemacandra strived to acquire a status of state-religion for Jainism both in the reign of Jayasimha and Kumārapāla. In one of his pilgrimages to Somanatha, he bowed his head to lord Siva which shows his individual liberalization in religious matters. Being incited by Hemacandra, both Jayasimha and Kumārapāla got numerous Jain caityas constructed. Neminatha caitya on the Raivataka mountain was built due to an insti
1. Prabandhakośa, p. 47.
2. Kumārapālacaritasangraha, p. 45.
3. Prabandhak osa, pp. 47-58.
4. Kumārapǎlacaritas angraha, p. 17.