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The Quotations in the Nītivākyāmsta Commentary editions. Also the boundary between a Brahmanic and Jinist Somadeva is fading away as the Commentator can have been a Hindu, perhaps of Vaisnava religion, or a Jinist too as Somadeva.
The special importance of the Tikakāra from a literary point of view are his quotations, as remarked above. These are verses, with few exceptions slokas, of authors the names of which are partly known, but the works of which are lost, partly verses of authors which cannot be identified in the works of these though their works exist. Therefore, as it is the case with the quotations from Manu and Yājñavalkya, the editor has raised some doubts whether the Commentator has not invented at all these alleged citations from the two Smộtis. Mr. Náthurām Premi defends the Commentator against this attack on his honesty mainly by the argument ( Bhůmika p. 25. ff. ) that the original texts from which the Tikākára has quoted do not exist parhaps. But neither the editor nor the prefator has made any attempt to confront the quotations with the sources as far as possible. It must be confessed that there ara quotations which evoke the suspicion that the Commentator has only versified the preceding prose text of Somadeva and ascribed the verse to some more or less famous author. The objection that we do not possess the original work from which a quotation is alleged to be taken can be refuted by improbability that the Commentator should have had access to Manuscripts or texts like Manu and Yājnavalkya in which verses occur which are missing in all editions hitherto. The question becomes more intricate still when Somadeva refers to some story; then both, Somadeva as well as the Tikākára, can have used some unknown source, or, say the Commentator used the versified source to which the author of the Nītiv. refers only in his prose. To quote one instance; p. 327 ( on 29,56 ) Somedeva says:
बलवद्भयादबलवदाश्रयणं हस्तिभयादेरण्डाश्रयणमिव ॥ The Commentator, explaining this sùtrā, ascribes the following sutra to Bhāguri:
सबलाढ्यस्य बलाद्धीनं यो बलेन समाश्रयेत् । स तेन सह नश्येत यथैरण्डाश्रयी गजः ॥
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[ Shree Atmaramji
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