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Ācārya Vijayaśīlacandrasuri
Jambu-jyoti
the preceding paragraph may be valid, the commentator would have put either 'समाप्तं पञ्चसूत्रकं व्याख्यानतः' or the sentence “समाप्ता पञ्चसूत्रकवृत्ति. And this could then be regarded as a proper ending. Moreover, after this, there is a positively independent sentence Trachelcht HATHTO, which has been written by the commentator. As a result of this phrase, the whole contextual reference of the sentence समाप्त पञ्चसूत्रकं व्याख्यानतोऽपि, is altogether changed and this sentence written by the commentator himself, clearly establishes the oneness of the commentator and the author of the original text. Nevertheless, with reference to the points to be later discussed, if we critically consider this matter, the doubt, it any still remains, will be cleared.
Second, had the original author employed the phrase 4481 , it would imply the completion of the 19th and not the 1950; but the commentator writes HR SEC11. Elsewhere also in the commentary, the commentator recognises this composition definitely as T E1012. Is it possible for a master commentator like Haribhadra sūri to take liberty of this kind with the phrase employed by the original author at the end of the original text.? And, can such a liberty be deemed proper or in the fitness of things ? On the contrary, an ancient commentator like Haribhadra sūri would proceed in his commentary remaining thoroughly faithful to each and every word of the original author and on this very account an inference can be advanced that, had the commentator been the original author of the text, he would make any desired addition in the matter of the original text. From this standpoint, if he himself had coined the title for the original text, then alone in the commentary and at the end of the commentary) he would employ the appellative term पञ्चसूत्रकं.
2. After the sentence SEC Heinatsfy, the commentator had also put some devotional sentences : "77: gacar Part 1 of 4* नमः । सर्ववन्दनार्हान् वन्दे । सर्वोपकारिणामिच्छामो वैयावृत्यम् । सार्वानुभावादौचित्येन मे धर्मे प्रवृत्तिर्भवतु । Hot Arall: ufan: hoy, u Heal: fer-: H, Hot Heal: HfCH: AI 1113
It has been an established tradition of the commentators that their dutiful work is to provide word by word elucidation of the matter discussed by either the original author or the ER. When their work is finished, the commentators end the text after writing either a verse or verses or some prose lines indicating the completion of the treatise. But, thereafter, the commentators never made any addition of their own to the commentary.
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