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as he had an earnest desire to have great works written in his kingdom and country as it was done in Malavā and as he thought that Hemachandra, who had a thorough knowledge of Sanskrit literature and the Brahmanical sciences as well as proficiency in the poetic art, ''was worthy of becoming the Bhoja of Gujarat", 3 0 3
Prof. Buhler hits the nail on the head when he maintains that "the success of his grammar appears to have induced Hemachandra to extend further the scope of his work and to write a number of handbooks which should give the students of Sanskrit composition -- and more particularly of the poetics - complete guidance to correct and eloquent expression. This endeavour led to the compilation of a number of lexica and text-books of rhetorics and metrics as well as of a formal artistic poem which contains the history of the Caulukys kings and princes meant for illustrating the grammatical rules". 3 0 4
Prof. Buhler holds (p. 36) that after his appointment as the Court-Pandit about V.S. 1194, Hemachandra undertook the task of writing complete series of manuals for the worldly science and specially for Sanskrit composition. Of these, the Grammar and its appendices with the commentary, perhaps also both of the Sanskrit Lexics and the first fourteen cantos of the Dvyāśraya were completed befor Jaisimha's death. After V.S. 1199, he appears to have pursued his plan further without worrying about the loss of his position in the court, and worked tirelessly as a private scholar. The first work belonging to this period is his Mannual of Poetics. 305 This is the Kavyānusāsana which we have studied, criticaliy, comparatively and comprehensively, in the preceding pages. Hemachandra's Works
Hemachandra's literary output is so extensive in volume and varied in subject-matter that tradition credits him with the authorship of innumerable works. But Hemachandra himself refers to his main works in the colophon to the T.S.P.C.
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