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Introduction I
Desināmamāla and we may, therefore, confidently believe that he always. hit at the right meaning of a word. The later lexicographers frequently misunderstood the older ones and gave wrong interpretations. In such cases Hemacandra followed the older desikäras such as Pädaliptacharya, Rahulaka, Abhimanacihna etc. and roundly abuses the later authors for their inadvertence. He remarks with disgust in the last section of his work (12).
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अधुनातनदेशीकाराणां तयाख्यातॄणां च कियन्तः संमोहाः परिगण्यन्ते.
The glossary at the end includes only those words which Hemacandra considers as really desi. All words considered as desi by other lexicographers but derived from Sanskrit by Hemacandra in this work or in his grammar are relegated to another index at the end. The optional forms of words taught by other desikāras which are quoted with approval by Hemacandra are also incorporated in the glossary but for their explanation they are referred to the forms admitted by Hemacandra. In the same way, the meanings assigned to words by other writers, if they are not objected to by Hemacandra, are also included in it. I have added English renderings to all the meanings. The references in this glossary as well as in the other indexes are to sections and stanzas of the work. Whenever I had occasion to think that the spelling of a word adopted in the text was not the correct one, I did not, as I said elsewhere, correct the text but added. in parenthesis in this glossary what I considered to be the right form. The differences between Trivikrama and our author are also noted in parenthesis. Wherever possible I tried to suggest derivations to the desi words in brackets. In doing so I have freely availed myself of the help of previous works and articles in the different oriental journals bearing on the subject. To the authors of these my thanks are, therefore, due. In arranging the desi words in alphabetical order, the anusvára before the mutes is given its legitimate place of the class nasal. As to the use of the anusvāra in desi words, see Introduction to the first edition. p. 30.
The index of Dhätvädešas or Verbal Substitutes has been prepared by me from this work and from Hemacandra's Prakrit Grammar. In the Desinämamalā, Hemacandra gives only a small number of them and refers the reader to his grammar for the remaining ones. Since his predecessors have considered them as desi words and he himself quotos some of them in this work, I thought it best to give a complete list of them prepared from his grammar. After I had completed the list and obtained the permission of the authorities of the Bhandarkar Institute to include it in this edition, Sir George Grierson's book The Pralert-Diätvädeśas appeared in the Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta. (Vol. viii. No. 2) But as the plan on which I worked was quite different from that adopted by Sir George Grierson, I did not give up the idea of including it in the present edition. I arranged the adesã-portion of the words in alphabetical order and gave under them their equivalent Sanskrit roots and the forms quoted in this work and in Hemacandra's Grammar with references to both For Private & Personal Use Only
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