Makaranda Madhukar Anand Mahendale Festshrift

Author(s): M A Dhaky, Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre

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Anna Radicchi
Makaranda
see that Purusottamadeva, who was writing in the XII century, frequently mentions Jayāditya in the first five adhyāyas as the author of the Kāśikāvrtti, from the VI adhyāya onwards Jayāditya is no longer named, but a Vāmanavrtti is referred to. Another important edition we owe to S. Ch. Chakravarti, that of the Nyāsa or Kāśikāvivaranapañjikā, marked a turning-point in these studies. Vol. I already contained sūtra 1. 1. 5 under which the Nyāsakāra Jinendra pointed out Jayāditya and Vāmana's respective contrasting opinions and mentioned the text of a vrtti by Jayāditya on 7. 2. 11. "Did Jayāditya write a complete commentary on the Kāśikā ?", wondered Chakravartió. The reference in the Nyāsa to a vrtti by Jayāditya on the seventh adhyāya certainly contrasted with all previous attributions of parts of the vrtti to the two authors.'
The Nyāsa, carefully-studied with the support of the Padanañjarī, proved in fact to be the most important source for discovering and listing the internal contradictions in the Kāśikāvrtti.
Initially, the research concentrated on linking contradictions to differences of opinions between the two authors, Jayāditya and Vāmana. Dineshchandra Bhattacharya's work belongs to and emerges during this first period. In 1922, in “Pāṇinian Studies in Bengal", he expressed his opinion, based on examination of references in the Nyāsa, that Jayāditya had himself completed his vrtti and Jinendra had at least partial access to its lost portions. Vāmana's vrtti thus seemed to assume the role of a revised enlarged edition of Jayāditya. What then led Vāmana to revise only the last three chapters remained unexplained.
Bhattacharya came back to the double authorship of the Kāśikāvrtti in 1946, in the Introduction to his edition of Purusottamadeva's Paribhāsāvrtti There he presented some ‘interesting facts' gathered from a careful analysis of the respective works of Jayāditya and Vāmana (i.e. the first five adhyāyas and the last three adhyāyas of the Kāśikāvrtti), which seemed to demonstrate that Jayāditya and Vāmana were separated by 'some length of time'. This should lead, in his opinion, to the abandonment of the current view that Jayāditya and Vamana were contemporaries or that Vāmana 'came soon after Jayāditya', as stated by S. K. Belvalkar in his Systems of Sanskrit Grammar. Bhattacharya counted 42 references to previous writers (under expressions