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chapters of the work. The word "Prākļiasāra' refers to, it seems, all the three chapters dealing with Varņavșttas.
Prof. H. D. Velankar rightly points out, 'It is Characteristic of Svayainbhū that he does not take any notice of the fact that the varna vrttas are properly the Sanskrit metres derived from their Vedic ancestort..... He does not use even the terms Vaiņi Vrtta nnd Matrā vrita and this is quite in keeping with his explaying only the Mātā ganas in his definitions of even these metres which are generally known as the "Vaiņa vịtlas'10.
'Chandas-Sekhara' of Rājasekhara (Uth Century A. D.) is highly influenced by Svayam bhū. Rājasekhera describes himself as Ārbata and a Kavi in the last stanza of the chapter. Chandas-Sekbara, a work written in Sanskrit, according to Prof. H. D. Velanker, is 'as it were a very close Sanskrit rendering of Svaya nbhū's corresponding Prakrit Stanzas'11.
The name of Svayambhū is mentioned in the colophons of every chapter of “Svayambhūcchanda'. Svayambhū, a Kavirāja, has also written *Paumacariu' and 'Ritthanemicariu,' which are of great literary merit.
Jayakirti : He was a Digambara Jain Sadhu, belonging to Kappadaspeaking area of Southern India. The name of his work is same as that of Hemacandrācārya, i, e. 'Chandonuśāsanam'. According to Prof. H. D. Velankar his date was nearly 1000 A. D.12 He belongs to a period bet. ween Kedāra Bhatta and Hemacandrācārya. It is difficult to come to a conclusion that Jayakiti was a predecessor of Hemacandräcärya, as there is no solid proof.
Vedic metres are not defined in the 'Chandonuśāsana' of Jayakirti. He has not given illustrations of the metres. His work is devided into eight adhikaras He has explained the Sañjnās of ‘aşta ganas', laghuguru, Yati etc. Then there are definitions of ama, ardhasama and visama vrtta, Āryā Jāti, Mārāsamaka, Vaitālıya, Dvipadı etc. There are definitions of some Jātis, which were popular in the Prakrit of Karnataka, He bas explained at the end the 'pratyayas', like 'prastāra', 'Naşta' ete,
Jayakiti has mentioned in his work, Bharata. Pingala, Saitava, Mān davya, Japāśraya, Sripadapūjya, and Jayadeva. He has defined some new metres. He has used Anuştubha, Arya and Skandhaka metres for explaining general aspects pertaining to Chindaḥ. The definition of a
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