Kalpadru Kosh Vol 01

SR No.: 016138
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kesava, Ramavatara Sarma
Publisher: Oriental Institute
Publication Year: 1928
Total Pages: 560
Language: Hindi
Classification: Dictionary & Dictionary
File Size: 30 MB

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KALPADRUKOWA
malás.
Dhanañjaya was a Digambara Jaina, a native of Karṇāta.' He is also the author of the Dvisandhānakāvya which has been quoted in four places in the Ganaratnamahodadhi: According to K.B. Pāthaka, Dhanañjaya, also called śrutakirti Traividya, wrote this poem shortly after Saka 1045, i.e., A.C. 1123.Dhananjaya's koşa is seldom quoted by commentators and only once by Sarvānanda (II, p. 341, 1. 2).
It may be noted in this connexion that there have been at least three different koşas, each called Nāma mālā and
perhaps more : one, as we have already Tha Nama- seen ($ 2, para 6, above), is by Katya, the
second is the present one by Dhanañjaya, and a third, written in the arya“ metre, is several times quoted by Sarvānanda. Another Nāmamālā, by Amara, is mentioned in C.C. III. 61. whose initial verse, however, quoted in the same page 159, calls it Amaramālā which may be the same as that noticed in § 2, para 9, above.
The A nekārtha sāra of Dhar a ņidās a, generally quoted as the Dharanikoşa or Dharani, is arranged
son after the final consonants and the number Dharanidāsa and his Anekār- of syllables. Here also, as in the Ajayakoşa, thasara.
kş is treated a separate letter." The author who has been quoted several times by Sarvānanda, cannot be later than the beginning of the 12th century.
Dharma, one of the authorities mentioned by Medinikara, is quoted once by Sarvānanda. It is not clear if
. Ind. Wört., p. 28.
' Ibid. • Ind. Ant., XIV, 14.
* Cf. drgnar a arafafa athararararafgroret......Sarvā., III, p. 235. 1. 12.
• Ind. Wört., p. 26. • starei a 9 fenntafe' : Sarvã., II, p. 130, 1. 3.