Sambodhi 1982 Vol 11

SR No.: 520761
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 502
Language: English, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Sambodhi, & India
File Size: 11 MB

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The Contribution of Jain Authors to Sanskrit Chandaḥsastra
metre is given in a quarter of that particular metre. Occasionally he has used the sutras also.
Ratnamañjūṣākāra: We don't know about the author of 'Ratnamañjūṣa. Old Bhasya also is available on this book, the author of which also is unknown. A commentator, in a benedictory stanza, has praised Mahayira and some chandas of the work are found in Jaina tradition only, hence the author of the commentary is definitely a Jaina. It is presumed that the sūtrakāra also was a Jaina. Of course there is no indication, regarding religion, in the süfratext.
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Acharya Baladeva Upadhyaya puts the author of Ratnamañjūṣā before Hemacandra, in the 11th century A. D.13 But this work seems to be of earlier period.
Ratnamanjușă, like Chandaḥsästra of Pingala, is divided into eight adhyayas. This 'astadhyay is writien in aphorisms(sütras), The author has not defined Vedie metres. He has given definitions cf 84 Varna vritas. Out of those 84 Varnavṛttas, 21 metres are not familiar to Pingala or Kedara Bhatta. There are 230 Sūtras in Ratnamañjüşă.
The unknown commentator of Ratnamañjūṣā has himself composed illustrations. The names of the metres are woven in forty illustrations by the device known as 'Mudrälamkära'. 25 illustrations have a subject of 'Samudrika Sastra'. Here also 'Mudralamkara' is used. In RatnamaAjușă 2/4 and 6/27 there are illustrations of 'Abhijñāna Sakuntalam' 1/33 and 'Pratijñay augandharayana 2/3, respectively.
There is one noteworthy feature of Ratnamañjūs. Pingala has used light 'trikas' (Aşta ganas) like Ya, ma, ta, ra, etc., while defining Varṇavritas. Ratnamañjūṣākāra has accepted ganas but he has changed the signs. We see a dual system of signs in this work. The signs are of two types (1) the signs indicated by consonants and (2) the signs indicated by vowels. e. g. 'ma' gana of Pingala is 'Ka' or 'a' gana of Ratnamañjūsk kāra. In the same way 'na' gana of Pingala, which has all short letters, is 'ha' or 1. gana of Ratnamañjūṣā.
The author of Ratnamañjüşă has used a unit of four matras, like that of Pingala, for explaining Matrāvṛttas.