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Introduction
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Author:
Buddhivijaya, the author of our poem, was a disciple of Jaganmalla, also known as Pandita Gajamalla who was himself a disciple of Vijaya Dana Sūri in the line of the famous Vijaya Hira Sūri. He composed this poem in Sam. 1660 (1603 A. D.), while Vijaya Sena Sūri was the Pattadhara (Verses 561-64).
Nothing further is known about Buddhivijaya. Language :
Our poem is composed in what is called the Jain Sanskrit. Bloomfield published a study of it in the Festschrift Jacob Wackernagel pp. 220 ff. Its chief peculiarities are the following:
· 1. Occurrence of words peculiar to Jainism, e. g., parfET( 2 ), 9194 (104, 106), #ama ( 95 ), 49146 ( 515 ), C# ( 508 ), FFTFA ( 539 ), Taigh ( 413 ), you ( 322 ), RICETTE ( 330 ), farem ( 95 ), eget ( 555 ) etc etc.
2. Use of grammatical forms not found in classical writers, e.g., farhao ( 43 ), fertfeiera
