Jinamanjari 1998 09 No 18

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

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employed references from general as well as particular texts were meticulously presented.
This dictionary generally provides a detailed history of each word, its origin, gender, suffixes, sutras, vrattis, bhasya, niryuktis and curnis. In addition, it presents the history of various schools of thoughts like Vedanta, Nyaya, Vaisheshika and Mimamsa.
All these are put into a total of seven volumes, each running over in excess of 1200 pages to 2700 pages. In all there are 60,000 Prākrit words and their Sanskrit synonyms, starting from 'A' to 'Ha,' with their mätras in Devanagari script. Contents of the volumes are:
One. Words with letters A to A Two. Words with letter s A to U Three. Words with letters E to Chh Four. Words with letters Ja to Na Five. Words with letters Pa to Bha Six. Words with letters Ma to Va Seven. Words with letters Sa to Ha
893 pages. 1215 pages 1362 pages 2777 pages 1637 pages 1468 pages 1250 pages
Chapter Eight of Acarya Hemacandra's Siddhhem Prākrit Grammar has also been included as a Preface to the volumes. And these volumes have a total of 97 reference works and approximately contain about 450,000 Sanskrit verses. All in all they cover all aspects of Jain religion whether it is philosophy, ethics or history.
Suriji was unable to see the publication of his voluminous work. He passed away in 1906, and the first edition came out some seventy years ago. Second edition appeared in 1984 and the third edition appeared in 1986 under the able guidance of Dr. Nagraj Muni, a modern Jain saint scholar, and Acārya Jayantsensuriji. O
NOTE: The article is based on Fiftieth Commemorative Souvenir, Rajendrasuriji, Tirthankar 1975, Shaswathadharma Jan-Feb 1990, and Abhidan Rajendra Canonical Dictionary Volumes I and II.
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