Jinadattasuri was a

Jain Jainism ( ), also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion. Jainism traces its spiritual ideas and history through the succession of twenty-four tirthankaras (supreme preachers of ''Dharma''), with the first in the current time cycle being ...

Apabhramsa poet. He was born in 1075 and died in 1154. He was a contemporary of

Hemchandra Hemachandra was a 12th century () Indian Jain saint, scholar, poet, mathematician, philosopher, yogi, grammarian, law theorist, historian, lexicographer, rhetorician, logician, and prosodist. Noted as a prodigy by his contemporaries, he gai ...

and a disciple of Jinavallabhsuri.

Works

His ''Upadesharasayana-rasa'' (1143) is a

didactic Didacticism is a philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature, art, and design. In art, design, architecture, and landscape, didacticism is an emerging conceptual approach that is driven by the urgent need to ...

poem of 80 verse written in the form of a '' 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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