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fancy, mastery in Sanskrit language are unique. That too, delineating in the frame of each verse, the sotry of Rāma and Pandavas, of Rāmāyaṇa and Mahā-Bharata simulataneously, is a feat rarely achieved. Cleverely manipulating and chiseling the structure of each stanza Dhanañjaya is able to drive Rāmakathā and Krşnakathā at the some time, in the same poem.
4.4.4.4. Dhanañjaya does it, not by legerdemain but by his dexterity in regulating the language and composition of each stanza. He is rated a peerless poet by the critics and the two commentators, (Acārya Padmacandra's disciple) Nėmicandra and kavi-Devara, son of Paravādigharatta Rāmacandra, who have composed glosses on Dvisandhānakāvya in Sanskrit. A salient feature of this poem is that the poet Dhanañjaya has not in the least attempted to bring any Jaina elements.
4.4.4.5. Vădirāja (C. E. 1020) greatfully remembers Matisāgara, Hēmasēna and Dāyāpāla in his magnum opus Nyāyaviniscayavivarana, a philosophical work. Of these poets, Hēmasēna has been identified with Dhanañjaya. But, Vādirāja has indubitably mentioned Dhanañjaya in his Pārsvanātha carita :
anekabheda samdhānah khanante hrdaye muhuh Bāņa Dhanañjayonmuktah
Karṇasyeva priyāh katham Poet Vādirāja has made use of the pun, figure of speech, of verbal equivocation - of Arjuna and poet Dhanañja, and of Karņa (son of kunti) and the ear.
4.5. Jinasēna-II (755-855), most illustrious partiarch revered by the Jaina church, gifted with unquestionable literary flair, has authored prominent works of extraordinary merit, both in Prakrit and Sanskrit. By any standard,
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