Grammatical Riddles from Jain Works

Author(s): Nalini Balbir
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Grammatical Riddles from Jain works
bhāva-vacanānāṁ ajvareḥ (2.3.54), "(The genitive is used for the object) for roots meaning 'to pain' when they express a condition (i.e., when the subject is an abstract noun), except for the causative verb jvaraya" and jāsiniprahaṇa-nāṭa-kratha-piṣāṁ hiṁsāyām (2.3.56), "The genitive is used for the object) for the roots 'to strike' in the causative, 'to kill' (when prefixed by) ni and/or pra, for nat in the causative, krath in the causative and pis, when meaning violence42."
A reference to the Katantra in a Jain work should not be too surprising : manuscripts of Durgasimha's vṛtti are housed in Jain libraries, Jain commentators, whether Śvetambara or Digambara, also applied their scholarship to the explanation of this treatise, whereas, on the other hand, various literateurs took it as a basis for sophisticated poetic exercises; last but not least the Katantra is also known to have had some impact on Hemacandra's grammar.
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13. The last instance of a sautra-jāti riddle is provided by Ajitasena's Alamkāracintamani :
uktasya nuḥ paramṛṣṭau kaḥ śabdo ? bheda-vāci kim
avyayam? kena nătoși ? sūtram kim Prakriya-sthitam ? (AC 2.60) sahārthena. sautra-jātiḥ.
What is the word used in referring to a masculine already mentioned ? -"He" Sa(h)
What is the indeclinable expressing differentiation ?-Ha ha43 What is it that does not bring satisfaction ?-Money arthena What is the sutra found in the Prakriya ?-"With (words) having the meaning 'along with'" sahārthena
On the basis of the general pattern of the sautra-jāti riddles, where the last question always refer to a grammatical work, it can safely be assumed that Prakriya designates some treatise of this type. Since no work having only this title seems to be known, Prakriya is probably an abbreviation. There are then two possibilities:
(i) Prakriya refers to the Prakriyasaṁgraha, a recast of Śākaṭāyana's Śabdānusasana by Abhayacandrasūri, "a commentary of the Kaumudi - type", or even, by extension, to śākaṭāyana's work in Abhayacandra's recension, which is possible since a sütra of the wording sahārthena