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He has a command on various branches of Indian learning particularly thoses of Jainism. Besides Veda and Vedānga, he has alluded to its various reading like Kramapāțha and the allusions of the Vedic seers like Yājñavalkya. Hemacandra has referred to a number of Vedic sacrifices which can only be traced in Kalpa literature. (For details see; NARANG, S. P. Hemacandra's Dvyāśrayakavya; A literary and cultural study pp. 24 ff)
All the planets and their conjunctions with other upagrahas and rāśīs are also alluded. Besides casual references of various systems of orthodox systems of Indian philosrphy, he has made allusions to Ayurveda, Dharmaśāstra, Arthaśāstra and Kāmaśāstra which are essentially as ingredients by Indian poets particularly Sanskrit poets. A number of other śāstras like Music and Dance; Āśvaśāstra particularly varieties of horses; Gajaśāstra particularly characteristics of good elephants are alluded by Hemacandra. He has quoted a work Vācaspatīyam on the sciences of elephants
His mythological allusions not only exhibit his study of the Epics and the Purānas but he has also alluded to folk-lore prevelant in his times. The rare allusions consist of some stories about Devāpi; a number of epithets of Indra; Kārtavīryārjuna; a number of Rudras; the lost concept of Varuņa; a variety of forms of Vișnu and his incarnations, Lord Siva and Skanda. Some Vedic deities like Apām Napät, Aśvinau are also alluded. A number of the
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