A History of Sanskrit Literature c33.s8.9

c33.s8.9

Other works are, though intended to inculcate the Jain faith, more vitally connected with branches of literature in the narrower sense of that term, and these, as in the case of Siddharṣi's *Upamitibhavaprapañcā kathā*, Amitagati's *Subhāṣitasaṁdoha* and *Dharmaparīkṣā*, have been noted above. There must be mentioned numerous Caritras, legends of saints, some in Sanskrit, and even Purāṇas, including the *Harivaṁçapurāṇa* (784) of Jinasena, and the *Ādipurāṇa* of another Jinasena, whose pupil, Guṇabhadra, wrote the continuation, the *Uttarapurāṇa*, giving the lives of the Tīrthakaras after Ṛṣabha. A further continuation was made by Lokasena in 898. Much later is the *Çatruṁjayamāhātmya*, a panegyric of mount Çatruṁjaya, in fourteen cantos of epic style. The *Padmapurāṇa* of Raviṣeṇa is ascribed to *c.* A. D. 660.