young child of five years for an entry into the monastic order.. The mother willingly gave him away and he was initiated under the name of Changadeva. On a tour of pilgrimage he stayed at Karnavati in the house of Udayanamantri. His. father who ran in quest of him found that his child had already realised the essence of an ascetic's life. As a test be put his hand in the blazing fire and instantly the bony arm, was turned to gold ,- hence his appellation Hemachandra. He had a respectable reception and patronage at the court of the-Chalukya Kings of Anhilvid in Guzerat where he spent the rest'of his'life till his death in 1173 A. D. He was almost a minister at the royal durbar and through his influence Jainism was encouraged and Fikaras to, the number 1400 were COG-structed. Laws against cruelty to animals were enacted and meat consumption,was prohibited; However his partiality to Brahminism is, said to have been equally praise-worthy. His Kumarapala-charita is a long poem, the first twenty cantos of which are Sanskrit and the last eight prakriu Hence it was called :Dvyasrdyakavya. The history of Anhilvid princes is given in detail, ending in an enthusiastic appreciation of King Kumarapala. The work appears to have solely been written* to illustrate Hemacharya's Sutras. Besides Hemachandra is a grammarian, rhetorician and lexicographer. Among his works are AbMdharia-Chintamani, Desinamamala^ Anekartha-Mala, Ckha*ndonusasana and Alankara- Chudamani,
f VasMeva's Yudhisthlravijaya has 8 chapters. A pupil ©£ Bharathiguru, tbe author flourished under Kulasekhara of. ihesz&ifa century A. D. "(Ind. Anfc VI, 143.)
;, ^Al^Stra'chandra's Balabharata narrates thre story of the in .the, Ofder of the Pm-vans."; The author was-— 1 » , ^exactly in most of their minute particulars. Of course it must be admitted that their present form. Quite the, ^