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Sudhākalaša, a pupil of Räjaścklarasűri of Valadhara Gaccha, and it is being printed in the Ekākşaranāmamālā Sangraha for the Rajasthan Purātana Granthamālā. Jaina Terapanthi Sabhā, Calcutta, is publishing another lexicon, Dhananjaya's Nighantu Samuccaya, edited by Dr. Ajitranjan Bhattacharyya.
In the subject of Jyotiş Juni Vikāsavijayaji, a very com. petent scholar of Jyotiş, is cditing the Janmasamudra of Naracandra composed in 1178 A.D. along with its commentary Beda l'a boat') composed by the samc author. It may be noted that this Karacandra was a pupil of Simhasūri and different from Yaracandra, pupil of Devaprabha and author of a gloss on the Nyayakandali.
Jaina Yatis had attained remarkablc proficiency not only in Jyotiş, but also in medicine and we find a good deal of literature on these subjects. But what is more noteworthy is the proficiency of at least some of them in music. Sudhakalaša had composed Sangitopanişat in 1324 A.D. and a synopsis of it entitled Sangitopanişatsara in 1350 A.D. The original work is not available, but the synopsis is being edited by Dr. U. P. Shah for the Gaeksrad's Oriental Series. There are several other Jaina works on music, and it is quite likely that the Yatis might have been attracted to this art on account of their close contacts with Royal courts in mediacval India.
I would like to refer to one or two monographs on Sanskrit literature. Prof. H. R. Kapadia has written a very informative Gujarati book on history of Sanskrit literature of the Jainas
(Baroda, 1936) and its first volume deals with secular litera'ture like Vyākaraņa, Koša, metrics, chetoric, dramaturgy, polity, music, erotics, mathematics, Jyotis, architecture, medicine, science of cooking etc. The second volume of this book will deal with religious literature. A Gujarati translation of my book, the Literary Circle of Mahāmātya Vastupāla and its contribution to Sanskrit Literature (Bbāratiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1953), was brought out recently (Gujarat Vidya Sabhā, Abmedabad, 1957 ) and its Hindi translation by Mr. Kasturmal
