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Numerous Apabhrarsa passages, short and long, scattered throughtout JC. are important for the light they throw on the trends in the Apabhramša literature of Gujarat during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Vardhamībasūri has used a variety of Apabhramśa metres like Vadanaka, Doha, Vastuvadanaka, Dvipadı, Paddhadi, Rāsāvalaya and Radda. The last one is used continuously for narrating the episode of Bharateśvara and Bāhubali. We have some three hundred Raddas in JC. Thus it provides an intermediate link between the Radda-poem of Govinda on Krşqa's life (cited in the Svayambhūcchandas) and that of Haribhadra on Neminātha's life in the twelfth century). The seventyfive and odd Rāsāvalayas also of JC. are. equally important historically in view of the almost total loss of the early Rasaka literature.
The passages in simple style are marked by the use of colloquial expressions, idioms and proverbs. Hence the importance of the works like JC. for the begionings and early history of Gujarati and other related languages.
The following is a brie! list of usages. (The figure indicates the page number.)
FEæq7 74, 37765, Bråtagat 65, 377 26, 571273 73, Brajg124HET 68, sýna 5, Jafaz 35, 3771T 47, *5 79, Cro 109, Emerfa 30, alisar 77, 7EHET FANI 110, Tur 117, ac ar a 68, 7572 73, Fattz 110, 51373 70, a Fiat 82, 918 51, slikar 70, ataggi 4, 737 7372931 Ara 36, GIÀ21731 111, arcano 30. 75j71, eta saruta que3341 73, aga et 38 pragu 50, FEMEISTEHT 60, izier ETT 38, 95710ft 27, aftaga 48, fagarrafen am 21, Greatu 74, 17% 43, Ts 36, 217#802, 4 24 52, HTET 110, 434 4, 1777 97, sa 11, faz a aequifaa ya algai ha 60, ZIEI 4, 374, alle 20, Estga 110, DISTT 43, raat 51, fate Tsitet 110, Fauft 27, AT 71, fegy 35.
Fagaria has given in his introduction a detailed summary of the contents of JC. and has also offered his comments on the sources, importance etc. of the work. He along with the L. D. Institute deserve high credit for making this work available to the lovers and students of Prakrit-literature. We earnestly hope he continues his scholarly work in this area and brings out some of the early Tirtharnkara-caritas in Prakrit which remain still buried in the Bhandāras. Their rich literary, narrative and linguistic data would help to fill up gaps in our cultural history of the period in the vicinity of 1000 A.D. Chaitra, Shukla 10. 2043
H. C. Bhayani. 9th April 1987, Ahmedabad. 2. Strangely enough Haribhadra, who has more than thirtythree hundred Raddas to his credit
in the Nemināha-cariya. has out right borrowed two Raddas from JC. Neminaha-cariya, vv. 343 and 344 are the same as JC, vy 2411 and 2412 (p. 215).
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