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Nalini Balbir
Jambu-jyoti
Variety No. 6
b
acd
abd
Variety No. 7 Variety No. 8
abc
Variety No. 9
bcd
acd
Variety No. 10 (corresponds to the pattern of the above verse of AC)
abd
Variety No. 11 ( = Janakīharana 1.37)
Variety No. 12
abc
d
+ (Akhyānikā
ac
bd
Viparītākhyānikā
bd
ac)
(iii) Finally, Jayakīrti, a Digambara Jain from Karnataka who lived about 1000 A.D., gives the following definition in his versified Chando'nuśäsana edited on the basis of a unique palm-leaf manuscript from Jaisalmer :
upendravajrā-sphurad indravajrāpädau vimiśrau yadi tau bhavetām nānā-vikalpair upajātir esā prakalpitāryaih kvacid indramālā (2.117) 57.
Because of common sectarian affiliation, this could well have been the book which was the source used by Mahākavi Ajitasena.
The above investigation should have contributed to make clear that Jain authors are extremely fond of all types of games connected with the manipulation of language and that their proficiency in the fields of knowledge pertaining to language (grammar, lexicography and metrics) is of a very high level. For them, as for other Indians, erudition is not boring, on the contrary it serves the games of intelligence and as such is valuable.
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