Jainas in History of Indian Literature

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Prakrit, and the poem is also intended to serve as an illustration to the poet's works on Sanskrit and Prakrit grammar." In the 13th, century Arisimha wrote a Mahākāvya Sukṛtasamkirtana in 11 Sargas "in praise of the good deeds" of Vastupala the minister of the Vaghela princes Lawanaprasada and Viradha wala, which Bühler has shown to be of some importance for the history of Gujarat. Another Jaina poem, the Jagaḍucarita of Sarvananda (14th cent.), is of little poetical value, but has also some historical importance. In the 15th, century the Jaina Naya candra wrote a historical poem Hammirakavya, which tells of the heroic feats of Hammira in his fight against the Muhammedans.*
JAINAS IN INDIAN LITERATURE
§7) Lyrical and didactic poetry also are well represented in the literature of the Jainas.
Jaina poets have composed Stotras both in Prakrit and in Sanskrit, some of them in the most artificial Kavya style. Old Prakrit Stotras are the Uvasaggaharastotra, a hymn on Parsva, of Bhadrabahu, and the Rṣimandala Stotra of Dharmaghoșa. A collection of Jaina Stotras has been published in the Kavyamālā, Part. VII,
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Extracts from the Sanskrit part of the poem are given by J. Burgess, Ind. Ant. 4, 1875. The Prakṛta Dvyās'raya Kavya has been edited by Shankar P. Pandit, Bombay Sanskrit Series, No. 60, 1900.
2 Das Sukṛtasamkirtana des Arisimha, Sitzungsberichte der Wiener Akademie, 1889.
3 See G. Bühler, Indian Studien I, The Jagaḍucarita of Sarvananda, a historical romance from Gujarat, Sizungsberichte der Wiener Akademie, 1892.
4 See N. J. Kirtane, Ind. Ant. 8, 55 ff.