A History of Sanskrit Literature c13.26

c13.26

As is well known, the Jains sought steadily to take over all Brahmanical myths and make them their own. To Amaracandra (*c.* 1250) we owe a *Bālabhārata*,² which is distinguished in metre but in no other respect. Apparently about 1050 Lolimbarāja wrote his *Harivilāsa*³ which in Canto iii gives the usual description of the seasons and in iv of Kṛṣṇa. But little religious poetry aimed at Kāvya style; the influence of the Purāṇas resulted in the great mass of Jain work, for instance, being cast in an unpretentious and pedestrian Sanskrit.