Jinamanjari 1995 09 No 12

Author(s): Jinamanjari
Publisher: Canada Bramhi Jain Society Publication

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some other inscriptions." He himself remembers Pujyapada and Akalanka and then starts the Nyas.
Pancavastu of Srutakirti is appreciated as “Vaiyakarana Bhaskara" in the Gurvavali of Nandisangha Kannada poet Aggala remembers his as a teacher in the Candraprabhacarita which was completed in V.S. 1146 and if Srutakirti and Srutakirti Traividya are identical, then the Pancavastu mut have been written after the Abhayanandi's Mahavrtti (12th c. A.D.). Its MSS. are kept in the Bhandarkara Oriental Research Institute, Poona. It contains about 3300
verses.
Laghujainandra of Mahacandra is written on the basis of the Mahavrtti. Its MSS. are available in the Digambara Jain Mandir, Ankaleshvar (Bharonch), Digambar Jain Mandir Paratapagara and Government Orinental Manuscript Library, Madras.
Vyakarana school of Sakatayana of Palyakirti
Sakatayana had been a very popular name since inception in the history of Sanskrit grammar. He has been mentioned in the Astadhyayi (3.4.11); 8.6.18; Bopadava also counts him as one of the eight Vaiyakaranas. Then Burnell studied further and remarked that Sakatayana Grammar is a comparatively modern redaction of an old treatise affected under Jain influences not much earlier than the 12th century A.D. Kielhorn refuted the identity of the old and modern Sakatayana and expressed his impression with comparative approach that Sakatayana Vyakarana is younger than the Mahabhasya, Kasikavrtti and the grammar of Candra. He then decided that the Amoghavrtti was composed between Saka 730 (81475 - 867/8, A.D.). his was supported by Pathak with the help of the Amoghavarso ratin). Sakatayana was contrmporaneou with Amoghavtrrti 1 (c. 814-877 A.D.), the Rashtrakuta royal patron of Jaina literature. 13
Some innovations of the Sakatayana Vyakarana
Sakatayana grammar "Sabdanusasana" along with its commentary is divided into four chapters. Each of them contains four padas with the Sutras,
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