Jinaharsha was a Jain ascetic poet who lived in 17th and 18th century. He was a disciple of Shantiharsha of

Kharatara Gaccha Kharatara Gaccha is one of Shvetambara Murtipujaka Gacchas. It is also called the Vidhisangha (the Assembly) or Vidhimarga (Path of Proper Conduct), as they regard their practices as scripturally correct. History Kharatara Gaccha was founde ...

. He spent last years of his life in Anhilwad Patan where his handwritten manuscripts are preserved in Jain libraries.

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Jinaharsha had written more than thirty '' Rasa''s, an early genre of poetry. Some of them are ''Shukaraja Rasa'' (1681), ''Shripalrajano Rasa'' (1684), ''Ratnasinh Rajarshi Rasa'' (1685), ''Kumarpal Rasa'' (1686), ''Harishchandra Rasa'' (1688), ''Uttamkumar Charitra Rasa'' (1689), ''Abhaykumar Rasa'' (1702), ''Sheelvati Rasa'' (1702), ''Jambuswami Rasa'' (1704), ''Aaramshobha Rasa'' (1705), ''Vasudeva Rasa'' (1706). He also wrote more than four hundred devotional poems in the form of ''Stavana'', ''Sajjhaya'', ''Hundi'', etc. His prose includes three ''Balavabodha''. Majority of his works are unpublished.

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{{authority control People from Patan district Date of birth unknown Date of death unknown Indian male poets Gujarati-language poets Indian Jain poets Indian Jain monks 17th-century Indian Jains 17th-century Jain monks 17th-century Indian monks 17th-century Indian poets 18th-century Indian Jains 18th-century Jain monks 18th-century Indian monks 18th-century Indian poets 18th-century male writers 17th-century male writers Śvetāmbara monks

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