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Linguistics and Medical sciences, i.e., Āyurveda, etc. It would be in the fitness of the things to record some of the details about such works, viz. Lokavibhāga of Sarvanandī (c. 6th A.D.) and Tiloyapaņņatti of Yati-vşşabha composed in Prakrit are two important works on Astronomy and Geography respectively. Some more works like Umāsvāti's Jambūdvīpasamāsa and Ksetravicāra (c. 3rd A.D.) and Brhatkşetrasamāsa of Jinabhadragani Kșamāśramana (c. 7 A.D.) also deal with Geography and some aspects of Jaina cosmology. Among these works, Kșetravicăra is not available today. Jivasamāsa and Jivavicāra as well as Tandulavaicārika are the works dealing with Jaina Biology, Pūjyapāda Devanandī (c. 6th A.D.) had composed a treatise named Vaidyakaśāstra dealing with Ayurvedic medicines, but this work is also not available today. Jyotisakarandaka is a prakirņaka, which also deals with Jaina Astrology. In the field of Grammar, Jainendra-vyākaraṇaor Endravyākaraṇa of Indranandi (c. 6th A.D.), Śāktāyana-vyākaraṇa of Śāktāyana (c. 9th A.D.) and Svayambhūvyākaraṇa of Tribhuvana Svayambhū (c.8th AD) are regarded important works on grammar. Thakkarapheru's works -- Ratnaparīkņā and Dhātupariksā as well as Vāstusāra also belong to this category. It shows that Jaina scholars have written in all fields and contributed a lot to the Jaina literature.
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