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Vasudeva, Abodha-Akara (18th cent. AD) of Ghanaśyāma (18th cent. AD) and Hariscandrodayaby anonymous. The Jaina tradition also owns a good number of works of this genre. In fact, the beginning of fusing more than one context in a single composition in this tradition dates back to 5th-6th cent. A.D. The cattāri attagāthâ, occurring in Vasudevahindi of Sanghadāsagani (c. AD 6th cent.) may be applied to 14 different contexts. An eminent Jaina scholar Late Agaracanda Natha categorised Jaina Sandhāna works in three groups : (1) Sleşamayakāvya (2) Individual words, sentences, verses and (3) Pādapūrti literature. The Jaina Pādapūrti literature may be treated as Sandhāna works of double entendre because the authors have so moulded particular line or lines of another's work or verse as to connote a different meaning than that intended by the original author. This pādapūrti literature may be broadly classified as based on (A) Jaina works and (B) Non-Jaina works. The works of first group may be further grouped as those pertaining to (a) Kalyāņa-Mandirastotra of Siddhasena Divākara, (b) Bhaktāmarastotra of Mānatungäcārya, (c) Sansāradāvānalastuti of Haribhadra and (d) other Jaina stotras, stutis, Vijñaptipatras. Likewise, works of (B) group may be sub-classified into two groups: (a) Jaina works adopting famous non-Jaina works viz. Meghadūtam of Kalidasa, Kirātārjunīyaṁ of Bhāravi, Siśupālavadhaṁof Māgha, Naişadhiyacaritaṁof Sriharsa etc. epics and (b) Jaina works employing some non-Jaina stotras. The detail of this genre of literature Pādapûrti Literature will appear in separate article in comeing issus of this quarterly.
However, the Jaina literature of the Sandhāna category has been treated herein under following groups: (1) Independent works : Kāvyas and stotras, (2) Single verse compositions, (3) Interpretation of single words, (4) Interpretation of well known Jaina and Non-Jaina mantras, (5) Interpretation of verse or verses occurred in famous Jaina and NonJaina works and the commentaries. A brief survey of this Jaina Sandhāna literature is made in the following lines :
(1) The Kavya works of multiple entendre include those of double, tripple, quadruple, five, seven, 24 and 25 entendre. The list of Dvisandhāna works includes Dvisandhānakāvya of Dhanañjaya (9th cent. AD). Rşabhanemikāvya of Sūrācārya (1023 AD). Nābheyanemikāvya by Hemacandrasūri of Bịhadgaccha (12th cent. AD), Rāgha
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