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'''Jatāsimhanandi''' ([[Sanskrit]]: जटासिंहनन्दि), also called '''Jatasimha Nandi''' or '''Jatila Muni''' (जटिलमुनि), was a [[Jain]] [[Sanskrit]] poet believed to have lived in the 6th-9th century CE period.<ref name="singh2001">{{Citation | title=Encyclopaedia of Jainism, Volume 1 | author=Nagendra Kumar Singh | year=2001 | isbn=81-261-0691-3 | publisher=Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oaEwpt00BXsC | quote=''... To the 7th century we can assign another poem written by a Digambara poet viz. the Varangacarita of Jatasimhanandi ... the Varangacarita and its author Jata Simhanandi ... The poem Varangacarita runs to 31 chapters and describes the vicissitudes of the life of prince Varanga ...''}}</ref> He lived in the modern-day [[India]]n state of [[Karnataka]].<ref name="warder1994">{{Citation | title=Indian kāvya literature: The ways of originality (Bāna to Dāmodaragupta), Volume 4 | author=Anthony Kennedy Warder | year=1994 | isbn=978-81-208-0449-4 | publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishers | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_AeFSbfAt6MC| quote=''... the Chalukya Empire of Karnataka belongs a Jaina dharma novel, the Varangacarita by Jatasimhanandin (or Jatila or Jatacarya ... commemorated in the Koppala inscription) ... Though a fiction (the names of the hero and of several other characters are obviously fictitious) ... had read and enjoyed Asvaghosa's works and wished to give the Jainas a counterpart ...''}}</ref><br />
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Jatasimhanandi was the author of several ''[[kāvya]]'' poetic works, including the adventure narrative of [[Varangacharita]].<ref name="singh2001"/> Although it has not conclusively been established, he may have been stylistically influenced by [[Aśvaghoṣa]].<ref name="warder1994"/><br />
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* [[Varangacharita]]<br />
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