f king Ajayapāla. He says:– गरिष्ठः प्रातिह्ार्यप्रतिष्ठः । णतकीर्तिर्गीतमुश्लेस्तवीति !' डामणिः। He introduces several new methods he mentions the following:— मिश्च घनासी च रागो गौडश्च सप्तमः ॥ त्र श्रीसोमराजेन सेोमकीर्तिस्सकीर्तितः । नन्दनसंज्ञस्तु मोक्त: प्रतापशेखरः । नै: क्रमेणैते वसन्तादेिषु सप्तसु ti : श्रोतुश्च गातुश्च जायन्ते सर्वसम्पदः । ?'
- रचयति विरिञ्चैौ भगवति । न्नाश्चं सुरवरचमत्कारचतुरम् ।। "
strøistrift in Vänäs and orgāgrggot and ends the तिसंवर्तवातः । । यां वाद्यविद्यां ततान ॥ " ग्रामोच्चापचापोत्कटकुलनलेिनीषण्डचण्डांशुरूपी । । तस्य श्रीसोमराज: समजनि तनयः कश्यपीकल्पवृक्षः । धारसरस्वतीकृतवपुमनेिन दानेन यः । पुण्यगुणोदयः स जयति श्रीसोमराजश्चिरम् ।। " y wrote several works on Kavya, Nagaka etc. Hemacandra. They followed Abhinawagupta ley are Jains they stand midway between mes to our notice next chronologically. He the Karama family of Kashmir and perhaps, d under the Yadavas of Devagiri. His knowinctly Kashmirian and in several places he omplete work in seven books on Svara, Raga, Widya and Wriya. The work represents the music and as such, they vary with later a surprise that writers like Kumbhakarua and va's ways but lavishly and blindly follow over the minds of music experts. Şărăga. nce commentaries to elucidate its meaning family, Keśava, Kallinatha and Vitthala (in d precise; Kallinatha is heavy for readers. abstruse in many places, especially where a, Vādya and Nrtta were undergoing great patrons Singana and his father Jaitrasimha led in the immediate turmoils of war. ice is Jāyana, the master of the elephant The king is also credited with a production he king's brother-in-law, wrote Nrttaratnā with Mārga Nrtta (Vaidika form), the last in his day viz., 1249 A. D. He confined his idyaratnävali) in two other treatises which | writer with a vigorous florid style. His ! by vast quotations from them. He was a rork does not reveal any acquaintance with rk by Pălkuriki Somanătha. Among Viņas he Viņa, Sāraṁga Viņa, Kūrma Viņa, Ākāśa , Ambikā. Viņa, Bāņa Viņa, Kāśyapa Viņa, ya, Kinnara Viņa, Irisari Viņa, Sarasvati ātha Viņa, Kaumāra Viņa, Rāvanahasta, Kasori Viņa, Parivāri Viņa, Svaramaņɖala, ubuja Vina. um, etc, are dwelt with. He quotes Nandin's kinds of Varhéas, twenty-two Gamakas, one five Svädus, three Sthanas, thirty-two ht Lüsyörgas, twenty Angahāras and twentying posture several Gatis. These are given in of them are unknown elsewhere. The writer larese language. There are quotations from aw developments on Sahgita and Arthasastra about 1200 A. D. - - 'ho was a king by birth. He wrote a work in the introduction he stated that he was a
