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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
PREFACE TO THE CONTENTS
OF VOL. IX.
The present Volume deals with the manuscripts on Kosa, Chandas and Alankara. The manuscripts on Kosa number nearly 365, among which are found a number of rare works. We shall here notice the more important of those works.
AGASTYANIGHANTU.
Agastya, in South India, is supposed to be the founder of the modern Dravidian-Tamil-Language in its present form and its grammar. But the lexicon that is referred to here has apparently nothing to do with that author of the Tamil Grammar. The colophon of the lexicon under consideration tells us that the words dealt with in this particular work were collected by somebody from a work on grammar whose author was an Agastya. The lexicon is also known as Nimasangrahamālā.
ANEKARTHAMANJARI,
There are 10 copies of this work (Nos. 4718-22) some bearing the title Anekārthamañjarī and some, Anekārthadhvanimañjarī. In none of the copies is the name of the author of the work mentioned but it may be conjectured on a comparison of this work with the work of the same name published in the Dvidada. kosasangraha in Eenares, (1865) that one Mahakaapanaka might have composed this work In the colophon to the Ms. described under No. 4722, the name of the work appears as Kavisanjivaninighantu also.
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