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Section V BIOGRAPHY
1575
BHAU DAJI—Brief Notes on Hemachandra or Hemācharya, (Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. IX, Pp. 222-224).--Bombay, 1872.
Biographical review on Hemachandra according to the Kumārapalacaritra, the Kumārapalaprabandha, the Prabandhacintā nani, the Rişimandalavritti, of Jinabhadrasūri, and some other works of Jainas.
1576
Hermann JACOBI - On Mahāvīra and his predecessors. (IA, Vol. ix, 1880. Pp. 158163).
Mahavira, the supposed founder of the Jaina sect-His relation with Gosāla Mokkhaliputta-The history of the Niganthas in general.
1577
Lewis Rice-The Poet Pampa (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, New Series, vol. XIV, Pp. 12-23), London, 1882.
Bibliographical review on the Canara poet Pampa. Pampa or Hampa was born in Saka 824 His father, Abhirāma Devaraya was converted from the Brahmanism to the Jainism. The two works of Pama are the Adipurāna and the Vikramarjunavijaya or Pampa-Bharata. He wrote both of them in the year Śaka 863.
Another Canara poet, Nāgachandra, called Abhinava Pampa, composed the Ramachandracaritapurāņa or Pampa-Rāmāyaṇa about a century later.
1578
Ram Chandra Basu-Fainism and its founder. Calcutta, 1886.
A discussion of the life and historicity of Ādināth and also of Mahāvira and his immediate predecessors.
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