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works are the Yatrdinacharya in Prakrit and the Alankarasāra.48
Jayasekharasuri of Anchalagatchha composed the Upadeśachintāmanz, Dhammalacharitamahākāvya and the Prabodhachantāmani in one year. His other works are, the Jain Kumārasambhava, Satrunjayadwātrimsikā, Garanáradwatrimsakā, Mahāviradwātrimsikā, Krzyāguptastotra and Atmāvabodhakulaka.19 The Prabodhachantāmanı, referred to above, won him name and fame as & first class Gujarati poet. The Tribhuvanadipakaprabandha is his other known work in Gujarati. Jayasekharasűri was the Second pupil of Mahendraprabhasūri and entered the order of Jain monks before V. S. 1418. (A. D. 1361-2 150
Jayasimhasūri, pupil of Mabendrasûrist of Krishnarsbigatchba, completed the Kumarapala Charita in V, S. 1422 ( A. D 1365-6 ) It deals
(48) Peterson, IV, 106; Kantivijaya Bhandara, Baroda; this Bhavadeyasuri was probably the author of the Kalkācharyakatha (Peterson, I, 30 )
(49-50) Dhruva K, H., Prachina Gurjara Kārya, introduction, p. 23.
(51) This Mahendrasuri, being free from avarice, did not accept money; so he was called "Mahatma" by Muhammad Taghlak (1325-51) whose contemporary he was.-Jam Sahityano Itzhasa, p. 440,
