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Kavyanusasana of the king. Looking to the great bulk of the matter and the time and the energy that would be required to prepare it, it would have been physically impossible if the work was not begun much earlier.
'Jayasimha immediately sent his officers to the Land of Vāgdevī-Learning. They went to Pravarapura - the same place from where Bilhana had come, - and propitiated the goddess who ordered her officers to send men with the collection of books, as “Hemachandra was her own incarnation." The ministers of Bhāratī gave the books and sent a Pandita named Utsaha' (v. 88 - 92). *
* Hemachandra went through the collection of grammars and prepared a new and wonderful grammar which was named Siddha-Hemachandra Sabdānuşāsana (v. 96). “The grammar was acclaimed as the best among grammars by all learned men and was accepted
• This Utsāha Pandita must have been the same as is referred to in the Mudrita K. C. as one whose wonderful and great energy of learning was known in Dāradădea (p. 45)+ Thus there is no doubt about the historicity of this person. But it creates a chronological difficulty. If Utsāha pandita was present in V. S. 1181-A. D. 1125 in the court of Jayasimha, how could he be sent with the officers of Jayasimha in V. S. 1192-A. D. 1136 or after. We can explain the difficulty by supposing that Utsába might have returned to Kā mira after V. S. 1181 and that he must have been sent with the officers of Jayasimha to Gujarat, probobly because he was a familiar figure there Or we may have to assume that this grammar-writing incident might have happened much earlier, say, in V. S. 1180 and that it might have been finished only after Mālava victory in V. S. 1192 A. D. 1136. It may have something to do with Hemachandra's expedition of learning to KA mira.
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