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22 Hemchandracharya's Literary Accomplishment o -- contains 1769 verses. Then three is the seventh Avyaya-section. This sections of 80 verses is additional. In 'Abhidhanachintamani' too the last section is additional. A number of words from this book have come down to modem language. This dictionary can give much material even to students of the Gujarati language. In
Anekarthasamgrah' we find the words - nihshreni pulak and tanga. From these the words - nisarani, pulav and tanga - have come down to the Gujarati language. On this book the commentary 'Anekarthakairavakarakaumudi' is available. Looking to Pushpika of the first section one thinks that Hemchandracharya himself must be its writer. But some Pushpika verses at the end of the commentary of the second section states that 'Shree Mahendra suri, Hemchandracharya's devoted disciple, wrote this commentary and give it that name.
श्री हे मसूरिशिष्यण श्रीमन्नाडे न्द्र सूरिणा
भक्तिनिष्ठेन टीकेषा तन्नाम्नैव प्रतिष्ठिता ।। The verse makes it clear that Hemchandracharya's disciple Mahendra Suri wrote this commentary and devotedly ascribed it to his guru.
The last fruit of Hemchandracharya's dictionary work is *Nighantushesa'. After compiting the Sanskrit dictionaries - *Abhidhanachintamani' and 'Anekarthasamgrah' and the
Hemchandracharya's Literary Accomplishment 23 Deshya dictionary Deshinamala' Hemchandracharya compiled 'Nighantushesa'. In his commentary an *Anekarthasamgrah' Mahendra Suri mentations that his Guru Hemchandracharya had a large collection of books which contained the book, 'Nighanta' by Dhanavantari. "Nighentushesa' is available in six sections. It is a sort of dictionary of vegetable life useful to the medical seience. It has six sections and the total number of verses is 396. It has six sections pertaining to trees, tree-clusters, plants, vegetables, grass or corn. The number of verses in each section gradually decreases. The first section has 181 verses, the second has 105 verses, the third has 44 verses, the fourth has 34 verses, the fifth has 17 verses and the sixth has 15 verses. This dictionary has not become so popular as Hemchandracharya's other dictionaries
With compilation of three dictionaries Hemchandracharya tried to expand Sanskrit etymology. The compilation dictionaries was intended to help Gujarat's scholars. The dictionaries of Dhanvantari Vyadi and Dhanpal came to destruction in course of time. But through Hemchandracharya's dictionaries we get their extract today. From this viewpoint, too, these dictionaries are important.
With the Prakrit grammar in the eighth chapter of
