Critical Introduction to Panhavagara

Author(s): Amulyachandra Sen
Publisher: Amulyachandra Sen

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The language and grammatical style of the text are comparatively late as well Except for a very small number ending in e which seem to be quoted from other sources (see below, p 61), its nominatives end in o Vowels are optionally combined between words forming a compound Its gendenng of words is very irregular as would specially appear from a glance at the words used in sections A and B of chaps 1-5 Its observance of the rules of grammar is sometimes slack, e s,
in section E of chap 1 (p 18a), occurs moggara tikkhanimmala annehi ya evam-ādiehım etc where nimmala has been left uninflected in the instr pl, in the same section (p 469) occurs a compound susana-vanasunna-ghara samākulāsu preceded by a series of adjectives ciyak āpajjalıya . kalevare, ruhira khikkhiyante, ghuya sadde, veyal. mirabhurāme, atı. darisan jje which qualify only the first number of the compound, viz susāna, in section E of chap 3 (p 53b) occur the words eyā annā ya cram-ādio veyanão which should have been eyão annão ya evo vo, this contraction may have been due to metrical reasons, for, if we read o of adio as a short vowel, we obtain a vedha in eyā . veyanão, but hardly is to be found in a doubtless vedha the feminine o as a short vowel The infinitive with -je, which occurs twice (ginhium - je p 122a ginheum-je p 123a), occurs in the Canon not earlier
than in some late gathā-prakiraka Our text reveals certain parallelisms with other works, viza, Āyara -
in section C of chap 1 - (p 8b) – karsana-pokkharanı mandavāna ya kae which is a reminder of Āyār (ed Jacobi) JI 11 8--9, (p 8a) atthi vāla-heum remind Āyār I 165, also Sữya II 11 18, in connection with the killing of one-sensed beings (p 8 a) attāne asarane which remind Āyār 1 2 1 4 In section C and D of chap 4 - (p 686) - mah' aggha
vara-pattanuggaya - Vicitta - rāga - en 1)-peni. 1) Metrically should be enispaeni, in chap 1, section D (142) we have cniyārā paeniyārā