Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c13.148

c13.148

It is related in the Prabhāvaka-charita (Hemachandra Prabandha, ss. 74–81), that once, while looking at the collection of books in the Avantī Bhaṇḍār, Siddharāja was shown a work on grammar which was explained by Hemachandra to be the work of Bhoja, and contained chapters on grammar, poetics, medicine, architecture, arithmetic, omens, dreams, astrology, etc. Hearing this, Jayasimha requested Hemachandra to write a similar treatise.