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G. BÜHLER-Ueber das Leben des Jaina Monches Hemachandra-Wien, 1889. Sources:
JAINA BIBLIOGRAPIY
1. Prabhavakacaritra, composed towards 1250 by Prabhäcandra and Pradyumnasūri.
2. Prabandhacintamani of Merutunga.
3. Prabandhakośa of Rajasekhara.
4. Kumarapalacarita of Jinamaṇḍana Upadhyaya.
5. The account furnished by Hemacandra himself in his different works.
Biography of Hemacandra.
Hemacandra was born in Samvat 1145 (1088 A.D.) at Dhandhuka, in the district of Ahmedabad. He was the student of Devacandra and received the dignity of Suri or Acharya in Samvat 1166. He went to settle down at Anahilvāḍ Patan and met his first protector in the person of the king Caulukya-Jayasimha, surnamed Siddharaja, who died in Samvat 1199.
It is in the court of this prince that Hemacandra composed his grammar, two of his dictionaries, the Abhidhanacintamani and the Anekarthasamgraha, his poetical treatise, the Alaṁkāracudamani, and his metrical treatise, the Chandonus asana. The Diydirayamahäkävya was undoubtedly also begun.
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Kumarapala succeeded Jayasimha on the throne of Gujerat. Hemachandra entered in relation with this prince towards Samvat 1214-1215. Between Samvat 1199 and 1214, the composition of the Desinämamālā and some diverse complements to the Abhidhanacintamani. It is towards Samvat 1216 that Hemacandra converted Kumarapala to the Jainism and composed the Yogaiastra and the Vitaragastotra in order to fortify the king in his new religion. Kumarapala favoured extremely the Jains and built to them a great number of temples. After Samvat 1216, the literary activity of Hemacandra did not fail off. In this period were written the Trisasfiialakapuruşararita, the appendix to this work or Parilistaparvan, the end of the Doyairaya Sanskrit, the Prakrit Duyaraya and the commentary on the Abhidhānacintamani.
Hemacandra died in Samvat 1229, a little before Kumarapala.
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