Vajjalaggam

SR No.: 020873
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: M V Patwardhan
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society
Publication Year: 1969
Total Pages: 706
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 11 MB

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and even in the Dhvanyaloka of Anandavardhana'. But in none of these works is the VL mentioned as the source from which the stanzas in question have been cited. It is likely that these rhetorical and other works quoted the stanzas in question from some other anthology of Prakrit stanzas like the Saptasati of Hala or from some other source and not necessarily from the VL2. So long as
1. See infra, Stanzas from the Vajjalagga cited in Alamkara-works, p. xxix ff.
2. On going through the first 16 pages of Uddyotana-suri's Kuvalayamālā (edited by Dr. A. N. Upadhye, 1959, in the Singhi Jaina Granthamālā ), I noticed two stanzas common to the Kuvalayamālā and the VL.
(i) Kuvalayamālā, p. 3, line 16 f: मा दोसे चिचय गेहह विरले वि गुणे पयासह जणरस । अक्खपउरो वि उयही भण्गइ रयणायरो लोए । Vajjälagga st. 748
मा दोसं चिय गेव्हह विरले वि गुणे पसंसह जणस्स । raaपउरो वि उवही भणइ रयणायरो लोए । (ii) Kuvalayamālā p. 12, line 24 f. अत्थो विज्जा पुरिसत्तणाइँ अण्णाइँ गुगसहरसाई । देव्वायत्ते कज्जे सव्वाइँ जणस्स विहति ॥ Vajjalagga st. 120:
अन्धो विज्जा पुरिसत्तणं च अन्नाइ गुणसहस्साई । दिव्वायसे कज्जे सव्वाइ नरस्स विडति ॥
It is possible to find many more of such common stanzas in the Kuvalayamālā and the VL, if the whole of the former work is scrutinised carefully. Also in the Chappannayagahão or the Gāthākośa edited by Dr. A. N. Upadhye in the Journal of the Oriental Research Institute, Vol. XI. No. 4 ( June 1962) pp. 385 ff., we get as many as 16 stanzas showing from partial similarity to complete identity with their counterparts in the VL. But it cannot be said for certain whether the compiler of the VL derived the common stanzas from the Kuvalayamala and the Chappanṇayagahão, or the authors of these two latter works derived them from the VL, or all the three derived them independently of one another from some common source unknown to us. The same remark holds good in the case of VL stanzas Nos. 121 found in the story ) [Ghatage, Kahanayatigam p. 11 (only the second half of the stanza ), 127 (667), 284*4, 685 (found in the story of) (Ghatage, op.cit. pp. 37, 31 and 42) and 64*5, 71 and 339 (found in the story of me) (Jacobi, Ausg. Erz. st. 79,96 and 37).