________________ 12 some seem to have had considerable bearing on the Kavyasiksa by Acarya Vinayacandra. In the opening verse of the work he makes obeisance to the Speech of Bappabhatti. He refers to th: latter as Guru, but he was the pupil of Raviprabhasuri, while Bappabhatti flourished in V. E. 800-895 ( 743-838 A. C.), i. e., about four centuries earlier than Vinayacandra. The reference, therefore, implies that Vinayacandra here expresses his indebtedness to some work composed by Bappabhatti and makes obeisance to the latter simply as a remote Guru. The other reference to Bappabhatti, made in Pariccheda IV with respect to the composition of poetry, also seems to bear a similar implication. Bippabhatti was reputed for his wide and deep learning as Siddhasarasvata, Vadikunjarakesari etc. No work on poetics or on instructions in poetry, composed by Bappabhatti, is known to us at present, but the versatile scholar definitely seems to have contributed some work, from which Vinayacandra: drew much of his material and which seems to have been extinct by this time. At the end of enumerating the kavya-siksas in Pariccheda I (verse 27), the author ascribes them to Raviprabhagani, who evidently seems to be his preceptor. In this subject the author may have received oral and direct instructions from his preceptor, who is not known to have contributed any written work on Kavyasiksi. Though the author does not expressly acknowledge his iridebtedness to the works of Hemacandracarya, his work contains a number of portions that are more or less drawn from the works of the Great Acarya, who flourished in Gujarat in V. E. 1162-1229 during the reign of Siddharaja Jayasimha and Kumarapala and whose works had considerable bearing on the local Jaina scholars of subsequent times. A portion of Pariccheda I (pp. 3-5) of Kavyasiksa seems mainly drawn from Adhyaya I of Kavyanusasana by Hemacandracarya. On p. 5 the author cites a verse from the latter's Yogasastra On p. 8 he alludes to the opening verse of the Sabuanusasana by Acarya Hemacandra. In Pariccheda IV he quotes several verses from the latter's Abhidhanacintamani and Vitaragastotra. Pariccheda V contains some evident bearing of Anekarthasamgraha by Hemacandracarya. As regards Pariccheda VI, the sutras, the vpiti and almost all the udaharanas are taken ad verbatim from the latter's Kavyanusasana. Thus in the composition of Kavyasiksa Acarya Vinayacandra is considerably indebted to the various works by Acarya Hemacandra. The verses in the Kriyanirnaya-Pariccheda or at least their contents are drawn from Kriyani ghanta by King Vira Pandya, as the author
