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

Page 62

INTRODUCTION
End: gf que771 HATAT PICgafas: 1 gana 2960 = 1613 A.D. 78 (? Jangat !) 283? (1874 A.D.). Affaqih Fort (Praah) 271
-MS belonging to the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona; No. 1358 of 1884-87. 61 folios ( = 122 pages). Hand-made paper. Size 13" x 8". Twenty-six breadthwise lines on every page and 28-30 letters in every line. The text and commentary ( of Ratnadeva ) are written continuously in fairly legible hand. ___Beginning : ओं नमः परमात्मने । श्रीसरस्वत्यै नमः । प्राकृतलुभाषितावल्या विद्यालयस्य छाया लिख्यते । तत्र शास्त्रस्यादौ श्वेताम्बरशिरोमणिर्जयवहभों नाम कविः etc.
End : ne qat xtara kaugali: etc., same as the four stanzas quoted on p. Xiv supra.
J-No. 3353 (551) of the L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad. 3+ folios ( 68 pages). Hand-made paper. Size 9" - 3". Incomplete, with six ( 2, 10, 11.31, 32, 33 ) out of 34 folios missing. 16 leng!hwise lines on every page and 52.56 letters in every line. Legible Nägarī characters. Text and commentary are written continuously. The name of the com mentator is not mentioned.
Beginning i styret mat | Dipaghiqarqeani darasata 3141fet: huzat तत्र शास्त्रस्यादौ श्वेताम्बरशिरोमणिर्जयवल्लभो नाम कविः etc.
The MS breaks off at the end of folios 34 in the midst of the stanza : Sfan Afgnt efet a fan quas salafin ( st. 674, 984Pagal).
As six out of the 33 folios in MS.) are missing and as the MS breaks off after folio 34, as many as 30 complete sections (Vajjās) and parts of seven others are absent in the MS. The sequence of the sections in the portion available to us is exactly the same as in MSS B, G and I. But the commentary is found omitted in the case of many stanzas, such stanzas being accompanied by the remark सुगमम्, सुगमा or सुगमभेव. Many times the textual explanation in the commentary on a stanza is omitted and only the general remarks explaining the main idea in the stanza or some grammatical peculiarity in the stanza are given and vice