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bhāva-vacanānām ajvareh (2.3.54), “(The genitive is used for the object) for roots meaning 'to pain' when they express a condition (i.e., when the subject is an abstract noun), except for the causative verb jvaraya" and jāsiniprahana-nāta-kratha-pisām hiṁsāyām (2.3.56), "The genitive is used for the object) for the roots 'to strike' in the causative, 'to kill' (when prefixed by) ni and/or pra, for nat in the causative, krath in the causative and pis, when meaning violence42.”
A reference to the Kātantra in a Jain work should not be too surprising : manuscripts of Durgasimha's vrtti are housed in Jain libraries, Jain commentators, whether svetāmbara or Digambara, also applied their scholarship to the explanation of this treatise, whereas, on the other hand, various literateurs took it as a basis for sophisticated poetic exercises; last but not least the Kātantra is also known to have had some impact on Hemacandra's grammar.
13. The last instance of a sautra-jāti riddle is provided by Ajitasena's Alamkāracintamani :
uktasya nuh parāmrstau kah sabdo ? bheda-vāci kim avyayaṁ ? kena nātoși ? sūtraṁ kim Prakriya-sthitam ? (AC 2.60) sahārthena. sautra-jātih. What is the word used in referring to a masculine already mentioned ? --"He" Sa(h) What is the indeclinable expressing differentiation ?--Ha ha43 What is it that does not bring satisfaction ?-Money arthena
What is the sūtra found in the Prakriyā ?_"With (words) having the meaning ‘along with'” sahārthena
On the basis of the general pattern of the sautra-jāti riddles, where the last question always refer to a grammatical work, it can safely be assumed that Prakriyā designates some treatise of this type. Since no work having only this title seems to be known, Prakriyā is probably an abbreviation. There are then two possibilities :
(i) Prakriyā refers to the Prakriyāsamgraha, a recast of Sākatāyana's Sabdānuśasana by Abhayacandrasūri, "a commentary of the Kaumudi - type"44, or even, by extension, to śākațāyana's work in Abhayacandra's recension, which is possible since a sūtra of the wording sahārthena
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