Dvyasrayakavya

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

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II. WORKS OF HEMACANDRA
Hemacandra was an erudite Jain monk who not only digested and reproduced numerous branches of Sanskrit learning but also wrote new technical treatises and lucid poetry. Due to his multifarious productivity in language and literature he was extolted with the epithet 'Omniscient of jhe Kali Age' (Kalikālasarvajña). His works comprise of dictionaries, philosophical treatises, Sanskrit literary criticism, grammar, original poetry and commentaries. A brief outline of his works is given below :
(A) DICTIONARIES 1. Abhidhânacintāmaņi and its commentary called Abhi dhān acintāmanisīkā?, Tativabodhavidhāyinīs or Avacūri4.
It is divided into six Kāņdas and of its sections the first is devoted to Jain gods; the second enlists Hindu gods; the third enumerates men; the fourth classifies animals; in the fifth residents of the Narakaloka are elaborated and the sixth consists of the abstract nouns, adjectives and particles. Kuśalasāgara, Devasāgara, Narendrasūri and vallabhagaņi wrote commentaries on the Abhidhānacintāmaņi. Abhidbānaciatām. aņisiloñcha by Jinadeva and Abhidbānacintāmaniseşasangraha?
1. Ed. O, Böhtlingk and C. Rieu. St. Petersburg, 1847; Deva candralal
bhai Jain Pustakoddbära series, 92, Bombay, 1946 and Vijaykastursuri,
Bombay, 1956. 2. Bhandarkar. R.G. Report on search for Skt. Mss. in the Bomyay
Presidency during the year 1880-84, p. 20, No. 87. 3. Parikh, R. C. Ed Kavyānuśāsana of Hemacandra, Vol. II. Bombay,
1938, introduction, p. CCXCIV. 4. Raghavan, V. New Catalogus Catalogorum, Vol. I. Madras, 1949, pp.
218-219. 5. ibid., pp. 218-219. 6. Ptd. in Abhidhānasangraba, Bombay, 1896 and also an appendix to
Abhidhānacintāmaņi Loc. cit., Bombay, 1946. 7. Raghavan. V. New Catalogus Catalogorum, Vol. I. pp. 218-19.