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Hemacandra was busy in his literary and socioreligio-activities till death in the regime of Kumārapāla where he breathed his last in 1172 A. D. 1WORKS : Notwithstanding his social, religious and legal reforms Hemacandra is known in the circle of literature as an important author in all the fields viz. grammar, lexicography, poetics, metrics, philosophy, caritas and original devotional poetry. He wrote not only original works but also commentaries on them. Due to his prolific authorship in all the fields he was given the epithet 'Kalikālasarvajña.' i c. omniscient of the Kali Age.
His Abhidhānacintāmaņi, Anekārthasangraha, Anekārthasesa, Ekākşarīnāmamālā, Désīnāmamālā, Seșasangraha and Nighanțuśeșa not only enlist the words in Jain and Baudda tradition which were omitted by previous authors like Amarasimha and Halāyudha but the credit of bringing aristocracy and popular words together als goes to Hemacan. dra in his Deśīnāmamālā which is a collection of the popular words including those borrowed from languages like Persian. Thus Hemacandra joined the separate cultures by putting their vocabulary together. Due to an advancement in Indian Medicine, a number of floral and medicinal words had come into existence which are particularly found in Suśrutasambita and had not been enlisted by previous authors of lexicography. It was due to the efforts of Hem
1 For detail references and Ends. See : NARANG, S. P. Dvyasrayakavya : A literary and cultural Study, pp. 6-14.
