Angavijja

SR No.: 001065
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Punyavijay, Vasudev S Agarwal, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: Prakrit Granth Parishad
Publication Year: 1957
Total Pages: 487
Language: Prakrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Agam, Canon, Jyotish, & agam_anykaalin
File Size: 15 MB

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COIN NAMES IN THE ANGAVIJJA
The Angavijja contains extremely valuable lists of textiles, containers and utensils, seats and furniture, ornaments and jewellery, gods and goddesses, conveyances and boats, government officers, articles of food and drink, arms and weapons, birds and animals, personal names of men and women, architectural terms, etc. Similar to the lists of the Buddhist Mahāvyutpatti, these are replete with cultural material of great importance. Here it is proposed to record the numismatic data incorporated in this text in the form of lists of coins constituting the wealth during that period, which served as the basis of foretelling the fortune of a person. The following passages are noteworthy :
..........."धणमतो परं ॥१८४ सुवण्णमासको व त्ति तहा रयय मासओ। दीपारमासको व त्ति तधो गाणं च मासको ॥१८५ काहापणो खत्तपको पुराणो त्ति व जो वदे। सतेरको त्ति तं सव्वं पुण्णामसममादिसे ॥१८६
[अङ्गविजा, ch. IX, P. 66]
सुवण्णकाकणी व ति तधा मासककाकणो। तधा सुवण्णगुञ्ज ति दीपारि ति व जो वदे ॥३६६
[अंगविज्जा, ch. IX, P. 72]
III
तत्थ कोडिते खोडिते दंतणहे अंजण-पासाण-सक्करा-लेढुक-ढालया-मच्छक फल्लादिसु सम्बकठिणगते सव्वकडगए सव्वचुप्णगते सव्वधणपडिरूव उवकरणगते चेव धणं बूया ।
उद्धं णाभीय काहावणे बूया । अधो पाभीय णाणकं बूया । तत्थ अभंतरामासे सव्बसारगते सव्वकाहावणोपकरणगते य काहावणो बूया।
तत्थ काहावणेसु पुव्वाधारितेसु उत्तमेसु उत्तमयत्तिए बूया, मज्झिमेसु मज्झिमयत्तिए बूया, जहण्णेसु जहण्णयत्तिए बूया, साधारणेसु उत्तममज्झिमजहण्णेसु साधारणयत्तिए बूया, आदिलेसु पुराणे बूया, वालेसु णवाए बूया।
तत्थ बज्झामा सेसु असारगते य सव्वणाणकपडिरूवगते य पाणकं बूया।
तत्थ पाणए पुव्वाधारिते कायमंतेसु सव्वमासकपडिरूवगते य मासए बूया, मज्झिमकाएसु अद्धमासकपडिरूवसद्दपादुब्भावे य अद्धमासए बूया, मजिझमाणतरकाएसु सव्वकाकणिपडिरूवगते य काकणि बूया, पञ्चवरकाएसु सव्वअट्ठपडिरूवगते य अट्ठातो बूया ।
1. Sec also for a casual discussion, Umakant P. Shah, JNSI, XIV, 107-110, and Journal of the M. S. University of Baroda, III, 55-80.