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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
APPENDIX-A
A Lexicogrophical Study
Lintroductory Vole:
Na stwy ol such 1cxts as the present en con te reparec) as complete in absence of a!icographical study of the sarac. In other words, the lexicographical study fornis a very important part of the critical study of a mediaeval te:t of the nature of LPS. The evident reason for this is that the Sanskrit langnage in such texts has become so simple, popular and colloquial and is so replete with rare and ob:olete words, back-formations and hyper-Sanskritism, regionai words, expressions and even syntax, that a Sanskrit scholar, not possessing sufficierit knowledge of buth tle Prakrits as well as the Oid regional language, cannot grusp the proper serse. Scholars like Prol. Zachariae, Prol. Schatniilst, M. Bloomfield (the first scholar to draw attention to the importance of the study of this type of language terined by him as " Jaina Sanskrit"), Dr. Hertel (who terns such literary incdiuni as . Vernacular Sanskrit '), Dr. A. N. Upadhye, Ir. 1. J. Sandesara, Sri Mohanall Dalicand Desäi and Dr. (Bliss) Tielez1 M. Jo!inson have furnished lists of peculiar words occurring in certain texts. The Lexicographical Studies in " Jaina Sanskit" (LSIS I prepired by Dr. B... Sincestra and the present editor and published frem Baroda as X0.5 of the S. University Oriental Series in 2962.4. D., however, is the tirst Look of its kiud, inúsinuch as it presents in a book-forth a study of the pecoliar words occurring in three representative Prabandha works viz. PC, PK and PPS, accanonally adding notes, comparisons with different modern Indian languages and quotations from Old Gujarāti literature.
The authors of the LSJS have also published a paper on "Sonic Im. portant Vocables from Sanskrit Commentaries on Jaina Coronical Texis" in JOI, XV, 3-4.
A lexicographical study of tue 1.PS on the samr. linca is presented in the following pages. The Lisappears more saturated with the regional tinge tran any other known wirtk in " Jaina Sanskrit ". Not only do we find there nonSanskrit words and expressions, but also sentences, sliert paragraphs and even verses in Old Guj, and I'kt, languages as also Oll Guj. casc-terminations. At places Old Guj. words have so nicely been inter-mingled with the Sk. words that the task ol separating them tbcresrom is indeed a hard not to crack. It is considered advisible, therefore, to include in this study every non-Sk, word
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