Jain Journal 1968 04

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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eight grammars from Kasmira, from which Hemacandra compiled his work It will not be an altogether wild guess if I suggest that some of Hemacandra's teachers might have been Kasmırı Pandits and even Utsaha may be one of them The same suggestion 18 supported by the fact that the sūtras of the Kavyānušāsana are based upon the Kāyyaprakäta of Mammata, and that, after discussing the theory of rasa by quoting Verbatim passages from the Natyaveda-viveti, Hemacandra says in the Viveka in so many words "we follow Abhinavaguptapada", Abhinavagupta and Mammata both of them were the luminaries of Kasmira in learning
After Somacandra became Hemacandra Suri, his mother Pahını, we are told by the Prabhāvakacarita, entered the holy order At the request of Hemacandra she was seated on a simhāsana (seat of honour)
a rare honour to a nun due to her son's greatness (vs 61-63)
Now we come to the question as to when and how Hemacandra was first introduced to Jayasımha
If we accept, on the authority of the Prabandha-cintamani (p67) and that of the Prabhāvakacarita, that Hemacandra was present at the time of the Kumudacandra debate, we can say that he was introduced to the court of Jayasimha by the year VS 1181 (AD 1125) At that time Hemacandra would be 31 years of agc The Prabhavakacarita, however, tells us that after Hemacandra was ordained a Suri, he went to Anahıllapura (v 64) Two questions arise in connection with the statement Whether this was Hemacandra's first visit to the capital and, how much tune must have clapsed after his Suri-ceremony before he reached the capital? We have no means to answer these questions definitely
The first meeting of Hemacandra and Jayasımha is described thus When Siddharaja seated on his elephant was going out for his usual outing (known as rājapātı) through the city he saw Hemacandra standing aside near a shop He stopped the elephant near a mound and asked the Suri to say something Hemacandra uttered a verse.
käraya prasaram siddha hastırājamasmkitam trasyantu diggajah kim tairbhüst vyaivoddhītā yatah
. If the account of the Kumarapala-prabandha of the first meeting of Kumarapala aud Hemacandra when the former waited upon Jayasimha is true, we must imagine Hemacandra to be 10 Anahıllapura even earlier than VS 1181