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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VAJJÄLAGGAM
dix (p. 216 ff.) and 6 have been printed in the foot-note No 1 on page lvi. These additional stanzas are found inserted generally at the end of the various sections, but sometimes even at the beginning or in the middle. Sometimes it is found that they have no connection with the preceding or following stanzas and appear to have been inserted in the wrong place. Often even in the case of stanzas common to the vulgate and MS C, their sequence within a section as found in the vulgate is changed in MS C. Sometimes a stanza properly belonging to a particular section in the vulgate is found transferred to some other sectiton where it is out of place. At times a stanza here and there in the vulgate is found to be omitted in MS C. The whole of (No. 29. st. 264-269) is absent in MS C. Sometimes identical or almost identical stanzas appear in MS C in two different places, once in the portion common to MS C and the vulgate and again as additional stanzas inserted elsewhere.
(8) The additional stanzas in MS C are in most cases accompanied by a gloss in Sanskrit. The wording of the commentary in the case of stanzas common to the vulgate and MS C is identical except for occasional verbal changes of a minor nature. Sometimes, however, it is found that in the case of stanzas occurring identically or almost identically in two places, once in the portion common to MS.C and the vulgate and then again as additional stanzas inserted elsewhere, the wording of the commentary is different. Although now and then a stanza occurs identically or almost identically in two places in MS C. it is accompanied by a gloss when occurring in the portion common to MS.C and the vulgate, but it is either not accompanied by a gloss at all or is accompanied only by the remark
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when occurring elsewhere as an additional stanza. The - converse of this is also met with in some cases.
All these peculiarities of MS C indicate that it has been prepared by some careless scribe who wanted to swell the volume of the vulgate by inserting here and there additional stanzas which he came across in other Prakrit anthologies or literary works and who improvised a Sanskrit gloss on them. But he did not care to see in many places whether the additional stanza or stanzas