Paumchariu Part 3

SR No.: 002525
Original Sutra Author: Swayambhudev
Author: H C Bhayani
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1960
Total Pages: 388
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 19 MB

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INTRODUCTION
JT, has proved valuable from several points of view. Aside from giving meanings of certain rare and otherwise obscure words, and removing textual obscurities or corruption of some of the glosses of PT., it also serves to some extent the purpose of an additional Ms. of PC., as it reproduces in original the words and expressions it translates. It would be readily seen that the MS. before the author of JT, and that before the author of PT. belonged to the same family. Even a casual glance at the appendix giving JT. glosses wquld suffice to reveal the very close correspondence between the reedings as found with JT. and PT. But that does not mean that the text before JT. was just another copy of P. Like PT., JT. too knows and occasionally records variants, only a part of which correspond to the readings of A.
Works ascribed to Svayambhū Futher importance of JT. lies in the fact that at two places it casually gives some information about the author of PC. Explaining thc word punu in the opening stanza of the first Sandhi, the gloss says': punu- once more' i. e, after having composed a Sanskrit and Prakrit grammar, a manual of prosody, a double-meaning (dvisandhāna) Kāvya, and the Bhārata'. According to this statement, already before writing PC. Svayambhū had to his credit four works. Of these "the Bhārata' of the glossator is the same as the Harivansa-purāņu or Ritthanemicariu. The 'Chandas' can be easily identified with the Svayambhūcchandas. Regarding the dvisandhāna, we are not in a position to say whether it was the same as the Suddhayacariya referred to in the much-discussed stanza* found in the beginning of Svayambhū’s Ritthaņemicariu, Sandhi 100, or it was altogether a different work. Lastly there remains the Sanskrit-Prakrit grammar. The point of crediting Svayambhū with wriing a grammar has been already considered by me in the introduction to Part I (p. 29). Jain and Premi have expressed the view that Svayambhū might have been the author of a grammar. Jain is inclined to credit Svayambhū also with works on Rhetorics and Lexicography. The references on which these inferences are based are of quite a general nature, and it was possible to read too much into them. But now the statement of the author of JT. lends some strength to the inferences of Jain and Premi about Svayambhū’s "authorship of a grammar, and makes it likely that Tribhuvana's
1 पुणु -पुनः, संस्कृत प्राकृत व्याकरण-छन्दो-द्विसन्धान-भारत:सूत्रकानन्तरम् । 2 काऊण पोमचरियं सुद्धयचरियं च गुणगणग्धवियं । हरिवंसमोहहरणे सरस्सई सुढियदेह-व्व ॥