Book Title: Jambu Jyoti
Author(s): M A Dhaky, Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: Kasturbhai Lalbhai Smarak Nidhi Ahmedabad

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________________ Grammatical Riddles from Jain works possible type of mixture. As for the word indramālā, it is probably not by chance that Ajitasena makes use of it. This synonymic designation of upajāti is not attested in all metrical treatises, but precisely in three works which come from South India, as Mahākavi Ajitasena himself, and which, for two of them, have Jain authors52. (i) The earliest reference is found in the Ratnamañjūṣā, an anonymous Jain work on Sanskrit metrics which is one of the oldest existing Indian chandaḥśāstras53: tristubh (5.24) indravajra śare (5.25) upendravajra şare (5.26) indramālā dvayam (5.27); ct. yadīndravajrāupendravajre sahaikasmin sloke bhavataḥ, bhavati indramālā nāma54. (ii) The wording of Janāśrayi's Chandoviciti (end of 6th cent. A.D.) recalls the Ratnamañjūṣā, although the technical designations of the ganas used by this author are peculiar to him : Variety No. 1 Variety No. 2 Variety No. 3 Variety No. 4 Variety No. 5 Jain Education International indravajra bejṛ (4.34) upendravajra kejr (4.35) ubhaya-misrendramālā (4.36)55. The author goes a step further, stating that there are fourteen different varieties of indramālā (să caturdaśa-bhedā, 4.37), as other metricians also do56. But he is one of the rare who provides illustrative stanzas for these varieties, namely twelve of them (the two remaining ones, the ākhyānikā and the viparītākhyānikā, which he has already treated separately in 3.7 and 3.8, are not repeated) : 301 Indravajrapada(s) ab cd ad bc a For Private & Personal Use Only Upendravajrapada(s) cd ab be ad bcd www.jainelibrary.org

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