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he established Simhapura and established a number of temples and educational institutions.
From sixteenth to twentieth canto the annals of Kumārapāla are described After installation ceremony, he was jointly invaded by Anna and Ballāla which is followed by the conventional description of the Arbuda mountain; amorous sports by women; Sun-set; evening, night and moon-rise; enjoyment of women; drinking and the sexual enjoyments The fight with Anna lasted long and ultimately he was defeated. Anna presented a number of valuable presents and married his daughter with Kumārapāla Ballāla, another enemy was also won by Kumārapāla.
In the last canto of the Sanskrit Dvyāśayakıvya, the administration, religious-deeds and reforms by Kumārapāla are described. He Put a restriction on the killing of animal in the sacrifice; abolished the hunting even for royal family; granted loans to wine-sellers and butchers to shift to other occupations and issued orders not to confisticate the pro. perty of an issueless widow. He got repaired the temple of Somanātha; ordered for the construction of Caitya of Parśvanātha. He also got constructed a temple of Lord Siva called Kumārapālākhyāyatana at Aņihlwādapațţaņa. Here ends the poem. AS A POEM : As observed in previous lines, Hemacandra had mastered all the branches of Sanskrit learning particularly metrics, grammar and diction. His extra-ordinory intelligence rarely finds any scope of not being expressed through appropriate
