Jinadatta Sūri
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Jinadattasuri was a Jain Apabhramsa poet and monk. He was born in 1075 and died in 1154. He was a contemporary of
Hemchandra Hemacandra was a 12th century () Śvetāmbara Jaina ācārya, scholar, poet, mathematician, philosopher, yogi, grammarian, law theorist, historian, lexicographer, rhetorician, logician, and prosodist. Noted as a prodigy by his contempora ...
and a disciple of Jinavallabhsuri.


Works

His ''Upadesharasayana-rasa'' (1143) is a
didactic Didacticism is a philosophy that emphasises instructional and informative qualities in literature, art, and design. In art, design, architecture, and landscape, didacticism is a conceptual approach that is driven by the urgent need to explain. ...
poem of 80 verse written in the form of a ''Rasa (literary form), Rasa''. In appreciation of his teacher Jinavallabhsuri, he wrote a didactic poem in 32 verses titled ''Kalaswarupakulakam'' in Apabhramsa and Chachchari.


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Further reading

*Jinadatta Sūri. ''Gaṇadharasārdhaśataka'', ed. Gandhi, Three Apabhraṃśa Works. {{Authority control 1075 births 1154 deaths Indian male poets Indian Jain monks 11th-century Indian Jains 11th-century Jain monks 11th-century Indian monks 11th-century Indian poets 12th-century Indian Jain writers 12th-century Jain monks 12th-century Indian monks 12th-century Indian poets Śvetāmbara monks