Jainas in History of Indian Literature

Author(s): Jinvijay
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RHETORIC AND GRAMMARS OF THE JAINAS
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As Jaina poets have written works of poetry: in high-flown Kāvya style, it is only natural that Jaina scholars have also occupied themselves with the Alamkārasāstra. There are two authors of the name of Vāgbha ţa, probably both Jainas, who have written on Alamkāra. The earlier of the two is Vāgbh a ța, son of Soma, who wrote the Vāgbhatālamkāra in slokas (edited in Kāvyamālā 48, 1895). He lived in Gujarat at the time of King Jaya simha (1093-1154). Later though perhaps not much later, is Vāgbhat a, the son of Nemikumāra, who wrote a Kāvyānusāsana. Sūtra with a commentary of his own ( edited in Kāvyamālā 43, 1894). Hema candra also has written an Alamkāraśāstra with the title Kāvýānusāsana in Sūtras with his own commentary, called Alamkāracūļāmani (edited in Kävyamālā 71, 1901).
The Jainas have their own grammatical Šāstras. The oldest grammar, closely following that of Pāṇini, is the Jainendravyākarana. The real author of this grammar, ascribed to Jinendra is Pūjy a pāda Devanandin who, according to R. G. Bhandarkar (Early History of the Dekkan, 2nd. Ed. p. 59), lived about 678 A.D.,
1 Th. Aufrechtand others speak only of one Vāgbhata,
But A. Wober ( Verzeichnis der Handschriften IT, 3. p. 1208) has already distinguished the two Vāgbh a ta g. See also E. Bernheimer in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenl. Ges. 63, p. 808, n. 1 and Colonel Jacob, JRAS 1897, 308f. Edited with the commentary of Abhayanandi Muni in the Pandit N. S. Vols. 31-34. Another commentary, Sabdārnavacandrika, was written by Somadeva in 1205 A. D.