Indian Antiquary Vol 41

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 253

NOVEMBAB, 1912.]
ON THE SESHAS
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भष्ठध्याकरणीप्रबंधचतुरः साहित्यरत्नाकर
क्षोणीमण्डलमण्डनैकतिलक श्री रामचंद्रो गुरुः। We have in the Bodleian Library & commentary on Naishadha by one Sesha Ramachandra and a commentary on the 14th canto only of the saine work in the Deccan College Library, Poona. Bat it is said that this Rimachandra was the pupil of Sosha Narayana. If this were correct, this Ramachandra must be a different personage from our Ramachandra, and I am unable to trace his connection with the Sesha line given at the beginning.
Narasimhas had two sons, Krishna and Chintamani. Krishna too was a great scholar-in fact the greatest scholar of the family. He composed a large number of works. Ten of them with short notes on some, are given below:
(1) उपपदमतिसूत्रव्याख्यानम् | (2) कंसवधम् (Printed in the Kavyamata, No. 6.)
(3) पदचंद्रिका-On the authority of H. T. Colebrooke, it is said, in the catalogue of the India Office Library, that this is a Sanskrit grammar-" chiefly based on the Sarasvata-prakriyd." But the extract from the work given at the same place clearly shows that it is based on Punint only. Moreover, the phrases एतावपाणिनीयम् and तवपाणिनीयम् on folios 29 and 83 respectively of the M.S., and the rejection of some forms as BTTTT because they are in contradiction to the Bhashya, support the above statement that it is based on Paņini.
(4) पारिजातापहरणचंपूः (Printed in the Karyamāla, No. 14). (5) प्रक्रियाप्रकाशः| A commentary on Prakriya-kaumudi.
(6) प्राकतचंद्रिका-This is a grammar of the Jaina Prakrit dialects in metre. The dialect Prâkirta, the first of the six dialects, is termed Arsha in this work, and it does not treat of Apabhramba as it is an unimportant dialect:
तश्चार्ष मागधी शौरसेनी पैशाचिकी तथा ।
चूलिकापैशाचिकं चापभ्रंशश्चति षड्डिधम् ।। and at the end of the work we have अपभ्रशस्तु यो भेदः षष्ठः सोऽजन लक्ष्यते।
(7) मुरारिविजयनाटकम् ।
(8) यलुगंतशिरोमणिः - This is a commentary on the Taalaganta portion of Prakriyd. kaumudi, as is evident from the following pratfileas.नत्यत आह-अचि प्रत्यय इति। नतुच्छंदसीत्वस्थति बुद्धवाह-चकारादिति | There is not much difference between this work and the portion of Prakriyd-prakdya by the same, treating of the same subject. Only the latter is more conciso. The author here and there criticises Prasada, the commentary on Prakriya-kaumudi.
(9) शब्दालंकारः-An extensive work on grammar of which Prakriya-prakdia in an abridgment, as is evident from the following verse of the latter work:
वही पवर्णमिव यत्परिशोप्य शब्दालंकारनामान मया निहितं निबंधे।
उजुत्य सारमिदमीयामिहोपबद्ध सिद्धांतशुद्धिविवभुल्पुजनानुरोधात् ।। (10) शूद्राचारशिरोमणिः -The authorship of this work is still open to question.
(11) स्फोटतत्त्वम् -It treats of the philosophy of grammar in 22 verses with the author's ' gloss thereon.
शब्नब्रह्मचिदानन्दमधिष्ठानमुपास्महे । यस्य वर्णाः पदं वाक्यं विवर्ताः संचकासति ।। महाभाष्यमतं भर्तृहरिणापि प्रकाशितम् । भालोच्य सर्वतंवाणि स्फोटत निरूप्यते ॥
• Ytde Catalogue Catalogorum, Vol. I, page 306 8. The name of the commentary is given as Bhavadyotanika