Yasastilaka and Indian Culture

SR No.: 001609
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Krishnakant Handiqui
Publisher: Jain Sanskruti Samrakshak Sangh Solapur
Publication Year: 1968
Total Pages: 566
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Story, Literature, & Culture
File Size: 16 MB

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YASASTILAKA AND INDIAN CULTURE
and Kekati also as referring to poets, but the verse mentions only Ganapati as a poet. We cannot but regard these names as fictitious, but it is noteworthy that there was actually a poet named Ganapati earlier than the tenth century. Rājasekhara praises him in a verse cited in Jalhana's Sūktimuktūvali, which also quotes another verse wherein he is mentioned along with several well-known poets. Verses from Ganapati are cited in Saduktikarnāmrta and Subhāsitävali, and he seems to have composed a work named Mahāmoda.
The following verse is quoted by Somadeva from an unnamed work on poetics. (3. 274): ___ त्रिमूलकं द्विधोत्थानं पञ्चशाखं चतुश्छदम् । योऽगं वेत्ति नवच्छायं दशभूमि स काव्यकृत् ॥
GRAMMARIANS
Somadeva says in Book I that the monks accompanying Sudatta expounded to their disciples the tenets of the Aindra, Jainendra, Candra, Āpisala, Pāṇiniya and many other grammars'. The grammar of Pāṇini needs no comment, but the others are less familiar, and it is interesting to find that they were in vogue in the tenth century. About a
, the Mulgund Inscription of the reign of Someśvara I, dated 1053 A. D., refers to the erudition of the Jaina Muni Narendrasena in the Candra, Kātantra, Jainendra, Sabdānusāsana and Aindra grammars, and that of Pāņini; and these were no doubt the standard grammars of the day. As late as the thirteenth century Bopadeva mentions at the beginning of his Kavikalpadruma eight ancient grammarians including Indra, Candra, Apisali, Pāṇini and Jainendra, and says that he has composed his work after examining their opinions'. Samayasundara in his commentary on the Jaina Kalpasūtra 2. 9 includes the Aindravyākarana and the Āpisalivyäkarana among the eighteen grammars mentioned by him; but while it may be assumed that the grammars enumerated by Somadeva were current in the Deccan for a few centuries after his time, it would be rash to draw any conclusion about the popularity of these ancient texts from late references occurring in a writer of the seventeenth century.
No work called the Aindra grammar has come down to us, but the Kātantra system is believed to be derived from the Aindra school, of which the traditional founder is the god Indra, who first appears in the rôle
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