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ज्ञानप्रमोदिकावृत्तिः
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originality or any specified methodology in the author's comments in the treatment. of Alankaras and Rasa as we have in the Vrtti of Jnanapramodagani. The tika seems to have the limited purpose of explaining the work of Vagbhaça to pupils.
In Vol. 12 of the Catalogue of BORI, on P. 321-23, a detailed description of वाग्मटालङ्कारटीका by जिनवर्धनसूरि is given. Here we have one interesting fact to note. The colophon at the end of the fifth Pariccheda runs as follows:
इति श्रीखरतरगच्छे श्रीजिनराजसूरिपदटे श्रीजिनवर्धमानसूरिविरचितायां वाग्मटालङ्कारटीकायां quan: 8 sài: Đ#1: ||||
Then follow 39 sutras of 1. All these sutras define 39 figures of word and sense. The source of these sutras is a matter of research. The question remains whether Vagbhata actually wrote a sutra work or whether the writer of the tika composed these sutras on the basis of the work of Vägbhata. Then follow some nine verses on Riti etc., and some are found in so ne mss. of the Vrtti by Sithhadeva ani.
The ms. in question is written in V.S. 1610,
A word may, in the end, be added about the number of verses in the text of the Vagbhatlahkara accepted by Jinavardhansaari. The number runs as follows:
First Pariccheda
Second
Third
Fourth
Fifth
9.
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One Karika less in the first is .. etc. Two Kärikäs are less in the 4th, though the two Karikas on Riti are included and it ends with a
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26
29
17
152
32
(c) Balvabodha' by Merusundara Upadhyaya
One very interesting and an original commentary, Vetti as it is called, is by Merusundara Upadhyaya. The Vrtti was written in 1535 A.D. and just one ms. of the Vetti, written in the same year is available in the Library of the Maharaja of Jaipur. The ms. is thus the 1 and no other ms. of the work was available till it was edited by Dr. Bhogilal Sandesara and published by the Gujarati Department of the M.S. University, Baroda, in 1975. This is a rare feature of
of the ms.
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