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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VAJJALAGGAM
34917 i-e. 279917 (1) fanzite: or manna endowed with discernment or power of discrimination, (2) Tyt: endowed with light. He is formed by adding the possessive Taddhita suffix (HS.VIII.2.159) to ta ( = atqi) which means discernment and light. Ihleqet, advance or prevalence of darkness (also ignorance), i.e. advancing, enveloping, spreading darkness (or ignorance).
a = Finti: = alti, a lamp. The DNM III.49 records 3* in the sense of $14. late = walâ: a flame + (Possessive Taddhita suffix)]. milia:fed afera si In Sanskrit the form of the word would be Flash or falacio Tongaun a s al, we should really have 44= a. eigant? 94, meqal. Cf. st. 18.
776) first = fileft or forfat, swallows, devours, imbibes.fatese =uffola = sfecla gives out, disgorges.
I=HTETA, malice, anger (a case of the use of the concrete for the abstract, भावप्रधाननिर्देश).
777) AQUT = ATAT: i.e. afaraat: wicked people, whose minds are impure or sinful; or people of unclean habits. So guila create dirt and uncleanliness. Het becomes * in Prākrit, according to HS. VIII.2-138. 797519 = 967341 or TT3u1, wilfully. See note on st. 480. Cf. the form oferozul in st. 661. gue basta possessed of TT [(1) virtues, (2) cotton-wick], Fata [(1) affection, (2) oil), and Fitfaa [(1) beautiful complexion, (2) light or lustre). A lamp produces a good deal of soot and blackens the place (niche) where it is kept burning.
778) auguugalii, who destroys (or consumes) 97s [(1) virtues, (2) cotton-wicks) and tag [(1) affection, (2) oil].A lamp while burning consumes its cotton-wick and oil. Punningly the expression also means one who acts in utter disregard of moral vittues and affection. HICUM 1291301 avata, (Cf. st. 777), (1) one that makes dirty or unclean (or blackens) its abode with the soot that it produces, (2) one who brings discredit (infamy, disrcpute) on his family. तुझ छाया सुयणेहि परिचत्ता, this seems to be a superstitious belief. The shadow cast by a burning lamp, which is sus. pended from a high point on the wall or from the roof of a house, is not to be crossed by a person, as that is regarded as inauspicious (unlucky). The next stanza also refers to this belief. The commentator says : fagia: Fatos legata alia.