Tilakmanjari

SR No.: 001574
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dhanpal Mahakavi
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1991
Total Pages: 474
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Literature, & Story
File Size: 11 MB

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Introduction
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quoting a reference from it. At times he touches the grammatical points, 14 gives Prakrit or Apabhamsa equivalents, 15 points out the rhetorical excellences, 16 and brings out the defects 17 while dissolving the double meaning compound words. He has also noted a few variant readings. 18 However, his knowledge of the Jain mythology is not very exact. But sometimes he does surpass the Tippanaka of Säntisūri.
These same merginal notes, not all though, have also been found in the Paper Mss. stored in the Hemaacndra Jnana Mandir, Patan. 19 It is probably out of one of these Mss. that Shri Bhavadatta Shastri copied the foot - notes of his editions of the TM. In the TM(N) he claims the authorship of those footnotes, when he makes some remarks as to the availability of only a single Ms. of the TM, at the end of his Sanskrit introduction. 20 This is clearly a case of plagiarism, evidently because Shri Bhavadatta Shastri has failed to discriminate between the texual deficiencies, added in the marginal spaces as well as between the lines, and similarly placed explanatory notes. And the P Ms. clearly distinguishes between these deficiences and explanatory remarks by different signs. How could such a gross mistake occur at the hands of one who claims to be their author ? Moreover, upto page No. 273 the footnotes are very few and far between and without any remarks, while from page No. 274 of the TM (N) onwards the editor has started suggesting emendations in the texual readings ! Till p. 273, the many of the explanatory notes have been incorporated in the body of the TM itself ! It is from p. 274 onwards that the emendations, most of them utterly wrong, are being mixed up with the marginal notes in the footnotes. All this conclusively proves the hollowness of the claim and indicates, from p. 274 onwards, the hand of Shri K. P. Parab in preparation of the press copy for the TM(N). All this has bsen responsible for suppression of the information about the existence of such a valuable commentary like this.
(3) Tilakamanjari-Vrtti :- The author of this Vștti was pannyāsa Padmasăgara, a disciple of Dharmasāgara Gaņi. 21 He was not the disciple of Vimalasāgara as has 14. e. g. feargao'stavit zq etc. 15. e. g. fa533 for fast; Toft343 fou ploty & c. 16. e. g. 37ì cha fantaj etc. 17. e g. geri TTA : etc. 18. e. g. 9ATITETI - OBFTATUTI ar argata 19. Nos. 6631; 6831; and 2605. 20. Cf. TM(N) Introduction, p. 12 : Tifaylasufen g ehalaqoyiq etc. 21 Cf. Colophone of the Pams. Vịt. in photograph No. 437 : Fachar 7
महोपाध्यायश्रीमद्भर्म सागरगणिशिष्य पं० पद्मसागरगणिभिः । ...ऊकेशवशसभूतमेघजीसाधुनन्दनः । HAAAF: Arg: TÄHTata in the beginning of Part one; also see ft. Dt. 24 below.