________________
26
the names of persons titles and places and things or adopts them directly.
On rare occasions, he assimilates Gujarati words by Sanskritising them. For example
2014 ( VII-82 ) for pricu, Fefta for weftal, poglawl for A123, but nosa is a Sk. word ( see monier-williams P. 775 3rd column.) qift an arm current in Gujarat then. DATE OF HĪRASAUBHAGYA
As pointed out by H.R. - Kapadiā, on the strength of the reference in Dharma-Sāgara-gani's PattāvaliSamuccaya DV completed the major portion of the poem before VS 1648 but completed it after the death of HV in V.S. 1652 ( Jaina-Satya Prakās' a XVII 1:36.)
Whether DV composed a poem called Hīra Sundara Kávya and enlarged it into the present Hīra Saubhāg. yam is a moot point. H. R. Kapadia does not believe in the theory proposed by Muni Maharaja Sri Darśana Vijayaji in Jain Satya Prakās's Vol. 15. Further research will throw some light on it as an epitome can be an abridgement of a big work and not necessarily the first draft or coha as the Muniji puts it. .
Muniji Municandra Vijayaji has rendered a valuable service to the scholarly world by republishing this beautiful historical-cum-religious Sk. epic.
44 Pratibha nagar,
KOLHAPUR-416 008 1. For examples : * for Mogul, 11 for Gazi XIV 82, qilaalle for Padshah (XIV. 84, XVII. 191), REEFT I. 129 for Mohmad, FFTFATA (XI. 18) for Firman. Names of places : #femiya ( Medta ), fastar ( Bikaner ), siteifeuit ( Sirohi ), silish for (Sikri ), 319 for ( Mr. Abu ), Jaga for ( Una ).
