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A. N. UPADHYE-Grammatical Peculiarities of Varangacarita, (N.I.A., I, 9, Pp. 554-7, Bombay, 1938).
The Varangacarita of Jațilamuni is a Sanskrit Puranic Kavya of the 7th century A.D. In this paper are collected together a few grammatical pecularities from it ; and they may be looked upon as deviations from the standard Sanskrit.
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L. RENOU-Adverbs in taram, taram, (Ind. Hist. Q. vol. xlv), Calcutta, 1938.
Pp. 134-135. An adverb is formed by means of a suffix attached to proverbs; the types in taram teach us less about the real productivity of a traditional usage than about the grammatical culture and pedanticism of the authors; some Jain examples cited.
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RATNAGANDRA-Jaina Siddhanta-Kaumudi-A Grammar of the Ardha-Magadha Pra
Pp. XII. I 411. ii. Labore, 1939.
A Sanskrit grammar of the Ardha-Magadhi Prakrit dialect, the language of the Jain Scriptures.
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Franklin EDGERTON-The origin of Pali Middha. (N.I.A. vol. 2, 1939-40).
Thinamiddha 'sloth and troper' thiņa equals Skt. Styāna.
P. 608. Frequent occurrence of forms in Jain religious literature parallel to those of the Buddhists makes it always desirable to look there especially when we find Buddhist terms that raise difficulties. The Jains have a word, which looks as related to the Pali thiṇamiddha. This is either thiṇaddhi or thinagiddhi. The Sanskrit form of the former is styänarddhi; of the latter, styanagrddhi-'somnambulism'-under its infiuence a man may not only walk, but perform extremely violent and sinful acts, such as killing people, in his sleep. It is a form of Karma, which 'obscures' or 'hinders' belief (darbanavaraynta); it belongs to one group of five of that category -various degrees of 'sleep' and 'drowsiness'. We must accept the original identity
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