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went near Hemacandra S ri. He humbly stood in front of him looking at him for some time inquisitively and then said, "Please say something."
The next moment, Siddha-S raswata r Hemacandra S ri recited a verse extempore blessing him with valiant victory. Then onwards they became close friends. They used to meet almost everyday. Day by day their friendship grew stronger and as a result the foundation for a new world based on virtuous characteristics, was laid down in Gurjara region.
One day in the royal court, the scholars were showing the texts which were sent from Avanti to Siddhar ja Jayasimha. Seeing the title 'Bhoja Vy kara a' on one of the texts, Jayasimha enquired about it.
An aged scholar replied, "This book is written by King Bhoja himself”.
King Bhoja was a polymath. He authored many texts on rhetoric, astrology, economics, Naturopathy, politics, architecture, mathematics, and the science of prognostics and dreams, palmistry, and philosophy.
Looking at 'Bhoja Vy kara a', Siddhar ja felt that similar book should be written even for the library of Gurjara Kingdom. So he requested Hemacandra S ri to write a text on grammar for his library. Being insisted by Hemacandra S ri, and to commence the work Jayasimha sent his chief personnel at once to Kashmir and got the grammar text brought from the library situated there.
c rya Hemacandra S ri read the text with full concentration, contemplated thoroughly on it and wrote a new text on grammar 'Siddha Hema Vy kara a'. All the scholars conjointly praised him and his work which also contained briefing on S tras and a collection of homonyms.
The assembly of scholars unanimously agreed 'Siddha Hema Vy kara a' as an authentic text. Siddhar ja Jayasimha also read the text and its meaning along with the scholars. He experienced such inexplicable joy while reading the text that he at once decreed an ordinance to the effect that three lakh gold coins should be spent every year from the treasury to make copies of the text. To duplicate Siddha Hema Vy kara a, more than 300 famous scribes were invited to Pa a a from different places and they commenced the work. When these copies were made in many,
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