Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c13.155

c13.155

This incident is described by Merutuṅgāchārya in the *Prabandhachintāmaṇi* (III, pp. 60—62, ed. by Jinavijayaji). It is said here that, after Hemachandra had written the grammar involving one and quarter lacs of *ślokas* in one year and had named it in such a way as to commemorate himself and the king, the book was brought to the king's court on the back of an elephant, sheltered with an umbrella and attended by two female *chaurī*-bearers. Thereafter, it was recited in the presence of the *Paṇḍits* of the court, and, after being duly worshipped, deposited in the State Library.