Shabdanushasana

SR No.: 002660
Original Sutra Author: Malaygiri
Author: Bechardas Doshi
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1967
Total Pages: 640
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Grammar
File Size: 24 MB

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change their usual order. Leaves 8 to 19 are some-what broken, and the first eight leaves are only fragmentary. The ms. gives the other name of the work, viz. Muștivyākarana. Muni Shri Punyavija yaji got this ms. copied in 1947. He kindly handed over to me this copy for the preparation of the critical edition of the present work.
I, at the instance of Muni Punyavijayaji, prepared, for the press, the final copy on the basis of these two copies. There I clearly marked off the different divisions of composition, viz. sútra, vrtti, udāharana, prati-udāharana. I corrected the whole of the available text with the help of other Grammars, viz. Śākațāyana, Kāśika, Candra, Jainendra, and Siddhahemaśabdānusāsana. Some short missing portions here and there have been restored by me. Of course, the long missing portions have not been restored. It seems that the Taddhita-prakarana consisted of twelve pādas. Out of these twelve only the six (viz. 2nd and 7th to 11th) pādas are available and the rest are lost to us. I prepared this copy in 1948 A. D. Thus at least seventeen years after the preparation of the press copy this critical edition is being issued.
GRAMMARS COMPOSED BY THE JAINA ĀCĀRYAS 1. Jainendra-vyākarana, the oldest of Jaina Grammars, is a work of Āc. Devanandin alias Pūjyapāda. Recently it has been published along with the Mahāvrtti of Abhayanandi.
2. In the reign of Amoghavarşa, Sākațāyana Sūri composed a work on Grammar named Säkațāyanavyākarana and he himself wrote a commentary, Āmoghavarşā, on it. It is to be published.
3. Sbri Buddhisāgara Sūri wrote a work on Grammar called, after his name, Buddhisāgaravyākaraṇa.? It is in verse form.
In a gāthā in Nandi there occurs a phrase 'vägaranakarana-bhangi-kammapayadimahānānan' used as an adjective of Ajjanāgahatthi, While commenting on it, Ac. Malayagiri states that vāgaraṇa here may mean either Samsksta Grammar or Präkşta Grammar or Praśnavyākaraņa. This suggests that Ac. Malayagiri recognizes the possibility of the composition of a Samskrta Grammar or a Prākrta Grammar by Aryanagahasti, And Aryanāgahasti being prior to Ac. Skandila, the president of the Mathura Confe. rence, his Grammars could be regarded as the oldest of all Jaina Grammars. But the oldest of the extant Jaina Grammars is, of course, Jainendravyākarana, Scholars have assigned it to the 6th Cent. of V. E. Those who are interested in details may refer to Dr. V. S. Agravala's introduction to the published text, and to Shri Premiji's article Devanandi kā Jainandravyākarana' included in the Bharatiya Jrānapitha edition of the text. The ms. of this work is available. The author himself states that it was composed at Javalipura (modern Jalornagar) in V.S. 1080. It also suggests that Pañcagranthi' is another name of the text. Pt. D. D. Malavania, the Director, L. D. Institute of Indology, encouraged me to edit even this work and I started working on it. For