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Kavyanusasåna In the last stanza of the Vītarāgastava, Hemachandra says “Let Kumārapāla get the desired fruit from this stava (prayer) of Vītarāga originating from Sri Hemachandra."
These are known also as the “ Twenty Vītarāgastutis " which are referred to in the Moharājaparājaya as “ Twenty Divyagulikās that is divine pills." These hymns include also the two well-known Dvātrimşikās or set of thirty two stanzas, the Ayogavyavacchedikā and the Anyayogavyavachchhedikā i. e. 'that in which the author disproves the allegation that Jainism is wrong, and that in which the claims of other systems that they are right' (p. XVIII Introduction Syádvādamanjari" B. S. S. ).
. These poems are the philosophical hymns of Hemachandra. The poetic diction in them is of a high order and they sometimes rise, in spite of their philosophical preoccupation, to a real poetic grandeur. The following remarks of Principal Anandsankar Dhruv quoted from his learned introduction to the Syādvādamanjarī on the Anyayogavyavacchedikā, more or less apply to all these stutis: “ The former (the A. V.) is a genuine devotional lyric, pulsating with reverence for the master and is at the same time a review of (4) Sukệtātişayavarqanāprakāşa (5) Pratihāryastava (6) Vipakshanirāsaprakāşa (7) Jagat Karttvanirāsaprakāsa (8) Ekāntanirāsastava (9) Kalipraşamrastava (19) Adbhutastava (11) Achintyamahimastava (12) Vairāgyastava (13) Virodhastava (14) Yogasiddhastava (15) Bhaktistava (16) Ātmagarhāstava (17) Sarvastava (18) Kathorastava (19) Ājnástava (20) Āşīhstava.
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