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hanga (or Subhanka), and of the lexicons like the Namamālā and the Nigamabhidhana occur chiefly, and in most cases for the first time, in works of the 11th and 12th centuries of the Christian era. Except Ajayapala, Dhananjaya, and Dharani whose works are available in manuscripts, all of them exist now only in quotations. We propose to collect here what little information we possess of these once famous authorities, taking Sarvananda's date, 1159, (since they have been quoted either by him or by an earlier writer) as the lowest limit of theirs.
The Nanarthasamgraha of Ajaya pala, a Buddhist, who has been quoted in the Ganaratnamahodadhi (1140), by Sarvananda, by Kesavasvā min and others, contains about 1730 words, most of which are found in the Sasvatakosa. It is arranged after the initial letters-without regard to the number of syllables-and divided into chapters after the extant of the meanings through full verses, half verses, etc. The avyayas are placed at the end of each chapter, and not collected at the end of the whole book as in many other kosas. Here also the conjunct ks is treated as a separate letter.
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KALPADRUKOSA
Ajayapala and his NanArthasamgraha.
Tarapala has been quoted by Sarvananda, Medinīkara. Rayamukuța and others. His work is so far
Tarapāla.
not known to exist even in a MS. He has been quoted chiefly for the unfamiliar variants of some of the familiar words,"
1 Cf. the Intro. vs. f :: etc. Ind. Off. Cat., p. 281.
Eggeling's ed., p. 183, 17.
3 Ind. Wört., p. 25.
Ibid., p. 14.
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Cf. जलौकापि जलौकः स्याज जलूका जलजन्तुक: Sarva, I, p. 191, 1. 9. GAT asfn sa gargoar feant feafa geogrà sta arura: Ibid., ·I, p. 88, 1, 9.
