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Hemchandracharya's Literary Accomplishment
Characteristics of samyaktva, big vows, small vows the nature of samsara, kasayas, twelve bhavanas, four bhavana such as maitri (love) etc., the unison of faith, knowledge and conduct, dreams, such achievement (siddhi's) of entering else one's body, yama, niyama and Pranayama, dharma, dhyana etc. He assimilated Patanjali's Astangayoga with big vows of ascetics and twelve vows of laity. Look at the piercing advice that Kalikalsarvagna gives to his own soul at the end of the book.
तांस्ताना परमेश्वरायपि परान् भावः प्रसाद नयंस्तै स्तै स्तत्तयुपायम् भगवान्नाझन किमायास्यसि ।।
O, Fortunate one; O soul! Why do you conceive thoughts different from those of the God ? If we please your soul a little what is the value of this wealth ? Your great brighten this vast empire.
King Kumarpal very much liked the book 'Yogashastra presenting Jain philosophy and Jain ethics. He is said to have observed in his last years the rule to begin his daily duties after raciting "Yogashastra'.
Though Patanjali's Yogashastra and Hemchandracharya's "Yogashastra' had different subjects, thoughts, style of writing, their similarities is a subject of comparative studies
Hemchandracharya's Literary Accomplishment 43 हुन्तात्मनमपि प्रसादय मनाग्वैनासता संपदा । साम्राज्यं परमेऽपि तेजसि तव प्राज्यं समुज्जूम्मते ।।
Some of Hemchandracharya's hymn are a sort of hymns of praise. Some hymns are devotional and some have logical serenity. Hemchandracharya reveals not only owerflowing feelings but strong feelings are accompanied by restraint of a savant. This also reveals his firm faith. This faith has a flower of a deep understanding of philosophy and spiritual experience, that is why he says in 'Ayogavyavachchhedikadvatrinshika'.:
"O God, it is not my faith alons that endears you to me not is it my prejudice alone that makes me averse to other religions. After having duly examined the soul I have taken shelter of you, the Omnipotent."
He applied deep thinking and logical test to Jain philosophy and then sang of its power. He wrote the wor Dvatrinsikas titles 'Ayogavyavachchhedikadvatrinshika' and 'Anjayogavyavachchhedikadvatrinshika' in the style of such work of Siddhasen Diwakar. Each of these two books of verses has 31 verses in the Upajati metre and the last verse in the Shikharuni metre. Each gives a prayer to Bhagvan Mahavir. These works are more important as works of poetry than prayer. Both these
