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quoted above. To this work the reader is referred for all details concerning our author. The conclusion at which Professor Buhler arrived, is that the Trisaştıśalākāpurusa-carita has been composed at some time between Samvat 1216 and 1229, the dates of Kumārapāla's conversion to Jainism by Hemacandra and the latter's death. As the first event 18 mentioned in the Mahā vīra-caritra, the last parvan of the Trışaştıšalākāpurusa-carita, the completion of that work, and, a fortiori the composition of the appendıs belonging to it, viz , the Parisistaparvan, must be subsequent to Samvat 1216. Hemacandra composed, in the period specified above, the following works in the order in which they are named -
1 The commentary on the Yogasūtra 2. The Trisastišalākāpurusa-carita 3 The Sanskrit Dvyāśraya 7. The Prākrit Dyāsraya 5. The commentary on the Abhidhāna Cintāmanı.
I proceed now to give a detailed analysis of the contents of the Parisista parran which will be useful for reference to the student of Jainism In the notes I hare named the older works in which the same legends are told or alluded to. The references which I owe to Professors Tawney and Leumann are distinguished by their names in brackets I have mentioned also such stories which bear some resemblance to those told by Hemacandra.
HERALANN JACOBI.
Boxx December 1931.
