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APPENDIX-A
A Lexicographical Study
Introductory Note:
No study of such texts as the present one can be regarded as complete in absence of a lexicographical study of the same. In other words, the lexicographical study forms a very important part of the critical study of a mediaeval text of the nature of LPS. The evident reason for this is that the Sanskrit language in such texts has become so simple, popular and colloquial and is so replete with rare and obsolete words, back-formations and hyper-Sanskritism, regional words, expressions and even syntax, that a Sanskrit scholar, not possessing sufficient knowledge of both the Prakrits as well as the Old regional language, cannot grasp the proper sense. Scholars like Prof. Zachariae, Prof. Schmidst, M. Bloomfield (the first scholar to draw attention to the importance of the study of this type of language termed by him as "Jaina Sanskrit "), Dr. Hertel (who terms such literary medium as Vernacular Sanskrit '), Dr. A. N. Upadhye, Dr. B. J. Sāṇḍesarā, Sri Mohanalal Dalicand Desăi and Dr. (Miss) Helen M. Johnson have furnished lists of peculiar words occurring in certain texts. The Lexicographical Studies in "Jaina Sanskit" [LSJS] prepared by Dr. B. J. Sāṇḍesarā and the present editor and published from Baroda as No. 5 of the M. S. University Oriental Series in 1962 A. D., however, is the first BOOK of its kind, inasmuch as it presents in a book-form a study of the peculiar words occurring in three representative Prabandha works viz. PC, PK and PPS, occasionally adding notes, comparisons with different modern Indian languages and quotations from Old Gujarati literature.
The authors of the LSJS have also published a paper on "Some Important Vocables from Sanskrit Commentaries on Jaina Cononical Texts" in JOI, XV, 3-4.
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A lexicographical study of the LPS on the same lines is presented in the following pages. The LFS appears more saturated with the regional tinge than any other known work in " Jaina Sanskrit ". Not only do we find there nonSanskrit words and expressions, but also sentences, short paragraphs and even verses in Old Guj. and Pkt. languages as also Old Guj. case-terminations. At places Old Guj. words have so nicely been inter-mingled with the Sk. words that the task of separating them therefrom is indeed a hard nut to crack. It is considered advisible, therefore, to include in this study every non-Sk. word..
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