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श्री यतींद्वसूरि अभिनंदन अन्य ( 1082 A, D.) giving a traditional account of Mahāvīra's life, half of the work being devoted to his earlier births. The language shows remarkable regularity of grammer, and is quite chaste, almost like classical Sanskrit by the models of which Guņacandra's expressions & ideas are influenced. It is a studied performance, a scholar's achievement, full of long compounds and poetic devices. It is a charming .Kāvya, a dish for the learned.
Hēmacandra ( 1089-1172 A. D.) is a dominent literary figure of medival India. Not only did he make Jainism great in Gujarat by winning her kings into its fold, but he also opened almost a new era in literature through his manifold contributions to different branches of learning. Tradition says that he brought the Goddess of Learning from Kashmir to Gujarat. He laid a sound foundation of Prākrit philosophy by his grammer and lexicon; his Kumārapāla is purely grammatical in purpose. As a concluding portion of his Dvyāśrayakāvya, it illustrates, like the Bhattikāvya, the rules of his Prākrit grammer. The work reveals, notheless, some poetic flashes and capable handling of language.
The stylistic Prākrit was cultivated in the extreme south, through the study of grammer of Vararuci and other tongues, as late as the 18th C. Krsnalilasuka (ca 13th C.) wrote the Siricimdhakavvain in 12 cantos, dealing with the life of Krsna, to illustrate the rules of Prākrit grammer, of Vararuci and Trivikrama. The Sericariţta of Srikantha (15th or 17th C.) is a Yamaka Kāvya, the eight mantras in two metrical feet having identical sound but different sence. Before the mid 18th C. Rama Panivada wrote two short poems, Kainsavaho and Usāniruddhain, charming in conception and scholarly in execution; the first deals with the slaying of Kamsa by the boy Krsma; the second is concerned with the story of love and marriage of Usã and Aniruddha.
Jainism possesses a highly elaborate and technical Karma doctrine, for the elucidation of which many works have been written in Prakrit. This subject matter, it is said, was originally included in the lost Purvās, the remnants of which lie at the basis of the
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