Book Title: Jain Bibliography
Author(s): Chhotelal Jain
Publisher: Bharti Jain Parisad

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________________ 324 JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY kośa or Jain-Harivamsa (A.D. 783) and writers like Bopadeva or Hemachandra refer to Devanandi, otherwise known as Pūjyapāda, as the author of this grammar. P. 63, n. 1. Sūtrapātha of the Jainendra grammar originally belonged to the Digambara Jains from whom the Svetāmbaras borrowed it. Pp. 64. Date of the Jainendra Vyākaraṇa-Foundation of this school dates from about the same time as that of the Chăndra-Prof. Pathak's paper on the Jain sākațāyaṇa (Ind. Ant. Oct. 1914) gives evidence to assign the Vyakaraṇa to the latter part of the 5th century A.D. P. 65. Character of the Jainendra Vyākaraņa–There are two versions in which the Jainendra Grammar has come down to us-Altogether wanting in originality. Pp. 66-68. Later history of the grammar since the 13th century very little is known-It draws a solitary student here and there amongst the Digambara Jains, especially of Southern India. Pp. 79-81. The Hemachandra School-Life of HemachandraNature of Hemachandra's Sabdanušāsana,Treatises accessory to Sabdanušāsana-Commentary on Sabdānusāsana-Digests and manuals and other miscellaneous works-Conclusion. P. 98. From the prasasti given at the end of Chandrakīrti's commentary on the Sārasvata Prakriya we learn that the author was a Jain belonging to the brihad gachchha of Nagpur, residing in a Jain tirtha.. called Kanţika, and 15th in succession from the founder of the gachchha, Deva Sūrī (Sam. 1174). 483 TESSITORI, L. P. Notes on the Grammars of the Old Western Rajasthani with special reference to Apabhramsa and to Gujarati and Marwari. (IA, xlv, 1916. pp. 93-99). P. 97. Jain ascetics live like the bees. 484 1., K. P. Vijñapti-Triveņi, a Jaina epistle. (IA, xlvi, 1917, p. 276).

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