Jainas in History of Indian Literature

Author(s): Jinvijay
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24] JAINAS IN INDIAN LITERATURE while B. Lewis Rice (JRAS 1890, 245 ff.) would place him about the middle of the 5th, century A. D. Later than this grammar is the Säkatāyanavyākarana' the grammar of Sāka tāyana, which was written in the time of Amoghavarşa I (814–877 A. D.). He is sometimes called "the new Sāka tā y ana” to distinguish him from the Sāka tāyana mentioned by Panini. The grammar of Hemacandra called Siddhahemacandra or Haimavyākarana, is nothing but an improved edition of Sāka tā yana's grammar. Yet F. Kielhorn, the first authority on Indian grammar in Europe, calls it "the best grammar of the Indian middle-ages”. For it is arranged in a more practical manner and has a more practical terminology than the grammars of Pāņini, Candragomin and Sāka tāyana. Hemacandra wrote his grammar on the order of King Jayasinha Siddbarāja ( whence it is called “ Siddhahemacandra"),
1 Edited by J. Oppert, Madras, 1893, new edition with a
commentary of Abhayacandra Sūri, London, 1913, the Sūtra with a Laghuvștti also in the Pandit, N. 8., Vols. 34, 35,. See also V. S. Sukthankar, Die Grammatik Sākațayana's (Adhy. 1, Pāda 1) nebst Ya k $ aParman's Kommentar (Cintāmaņi), Berlin, 1921
(disssertation). 2 Perhaps Säkațäyana is only a name given to, or adopted
by, the author of this grammar, to identify him with the predecessor of Pānini honoris causa. About the date of the grammar s. K. B. Pathak in Annals of Bhandar
kar Institute I, 1918-1919, pp. 7 ff. 3 Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes
2, p. 24.