Authorship Of Vakya Kanda Tika

Author(s): Ashok Aklujkar
Publisher: Ashok Aklujkar

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Hela-rāja and seems to have written the available commentarial pieces, not with the intention of commenting on the whole Prakirnaka or Trikīndi, but with the specific intention of supplementing Helā-rāja's work (see Aklujkar, forthcoming). His interest in explaining the order of discussion (sangati) is also evident from pp. 265.2.13 and 282.1-5. However, these considerations being probabilistic in character, can hardly be called conclusive. Until the manuscripts furnish us with definite evidence that either the form Phulla-rāja or the form Punya-rāja could have resulted from a miswriting of the other, we cannot be certain that both the forms actually refer to one and the same person.
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(To avoid repetition of particulars, the names of commentators are listed in almost all cases only under the names of the authors commented upon.)
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