Jainas in History of Indian Literature

Author(s): Jinvijay
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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LYRICAL AND DIDACTIC POETRY OF THE JAINAS [21
Jaina Jay a vallabha? who states himself that it was his intention to collect the sayings of famous poets on Dharma, Artha and Kāma. But the greater part of the anthology which consists of nearly 700 Aryā verses in Jaina-Māhārāștri is on the subject of Kāma. An anthology of allegorical verses is the Anyoktimuktūvali of Hamasa vijaya Gaņi ( written in 1679 A.D.).'
The Jainas do not seem to have made much use of Dramatic poetry for religious purposes. I know only of one drama with a Jaina tendency, the Mohaparājaya of Y aśaḥ pāla which treats of the conversion of King Kumāra pāla to Jinism. Dramatical works by Jaina authors which I have seen are the Mudritakumudacandraprakarana by Yaśascandra, the son of Śrīpadmacandra, a drama in 5 acts, and the Nirbhayabhimavyāyoga of Rāma candra sūri, the pupil of Hemacandra. In 1230 A. D. the Jaina poet Jay &simha wrote a quasi-historical drama, the Hammiramadamardana in which is shown how the pride of Hammīra, i. e. the Amir Shikār of Sultan Samsu-d-dunyā (died 1235 A. D.) was humbled.
1 Ed. by J. Laber, Bibl. Ind. Fasc. I, 1914; Fasc. II.
1923. 2 Edited in Kāvyamālā 88, 1907; see also A, Guerinot,
Journal Asiatique, 1909, s. 10, t XIV, 47 f. 3 Edited by Muni Chatura vijayaji and C. D. Dalal,
Baroda, 1918. I have not seen it myself. 4 They have been edited in the Sri-Yaśovijaya-Jaina
Granthamālā, Nrs. 8 and 19. 5 See R. G. Bhandarkar's Second Report on Sanskrit
Manscripts 16ff., 72ff.