Vajjalaggam

SR No.: 001383
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jayvallabh
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1969
Total Pages: 708
Language: Prakrit, Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 13 MB

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and even in the Dhvanyāloka of Anandavardhana'. But in none of these works is the VL mentioned as the source from which the stanzas in question have been cited. It is likely that these rhetori. cal and other works quoted the stanzas in question from some other anthology of Prākrit stanzas like the Saptaśati of Hāla or from some other source and not necessarily from the VL?. So long as
1. See infra, Stanzas from the Vajjālagga cited in Alam. kāra-works, p. xxix ff.
2. On going through the first 16 pages of Uddyotana-sūri's Kuvalayamālā ( edited by Dr. A. N. Upadhye, 1959, in the Singhi Jaina Granthamālā ), I noticed two stanzas common to the Kuvalayamālā and the VL. (i) Kuvalayamālā, p. 3, line 16 f :
मा दोसे च्चिय गेहह विरले वि गुणे पयासह जणस्स।
अक्खपउरो वि उयही भण्णइ रयणायरो लोए । Vajjālagga st. 748
मा दोसं चिय गेण्हह विरले वि गुणे पसंसह जणस्स ।
अक्खपउरो वि उवही भण्णइ रयणायरो लोए । (ii) Kuvalayamālā p. 12, line 24 f.
अत्थो विज्जा पुरिसत्तणाइँ अण्णाइँ गुणसहस्साई।
देवायत्ते कज्जे सव्वाइँ जणस्स विहडंति ।। Vajjala gga st, 120 : अन्थो विज्जा पुरिसत्तणं च अन्नाई गुणसहस्साई । दिव्वायत्ते कज्जे सवाई नरस्स विहडंति ॥
It is possible to find many more of such common stanzas in the Kuvalayamālā and the VL, if the whole of the former work is scrutinised carefully. Also in the Chappannayagāhão or the Gāthākośa edited by Dr. A. N. Upadhye in the journal of the Oriental Research Institute, Vol. XI. No. 4 ( June 1962 ) pp. 385 ff., we get as many as 16 stanzas showing from partial similarity to complete identity with their counterparts in the VL. But it cannot be said for certain whether the compiler of the VL derived the common stanzas from the Kuvalayamāla and the Chappa. nņayagāhão, or the authors of these two latter works derived them from the VL, or all the three derived them independently of one another from some common source Unknown to us. The same remark holds good in the case of VL stanzas Nos. 121 ( found in the story arafat) (Ghatage, Kabāņayatigam p. 11 (only the second half of the stanza ), 127 ( = 667), 284*4, 685 I found in the story of Taa) (Ghatage, op.cit. pp. 37, 31 and 42) and 64*5, 71 and 339 ( found in the story of SITECO ) (Jacobi, Ausg. Erz. st. 79,96 and 37).