Makaranda Madhukar Anand Mahendale Festshrift

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

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Vivaksā in Käsikävýtti : Jayāditya and Vamana
such as 'kecit', etc.) in Jayāditya's larger portion (I-V) as opposed to 103 references in Vāmana's smaller portion (VI-VIII). He then noted that in the section of the Vedic accent (VI. 2), all the illustrations under the sūtras of the II and the III adhyāyas commented on by Jayāditya were collected, but others were also added. Finally, the “polemical discussions'in which Vāmana indulges, practically inexistent in Jayāditya. It seems, however, that rather than ‘polemical discussions', it is a matter of a clear tendency on Vāmana's part to go into the intricacies of the rules and grammatical technique, also constantly referring, in many passages cited by Bhattacharya, to the paribhāsās, the rules of interpretation. The increase in reference to the other authors, as well as an increase in the number of examples certainly accounted for a period of time between Jayāditya and Vāmana longer than what scholars had generally been ready to concede. "Vāmana could never be supposed to have revised the last three chapters of Jayāditya's vrtti before 700 A. D. and probably did so about 750 A. D.", according to Bhattacharya, who placed Jayāditya in 650 A. D. However, it seems that–indeed Vāmana's attention to the interpretation of the rules and interpretative technique also indicatesperhaps more than anything else, a later time in respect to Jayāditya, near the Middle Ages.
In the 60's, Yutaka Ojihara began systematic research on facts of 'Incoherence interne chez la Kāśikā”. Would a complete collection of these facts, Ojihara wondered, have served, if not to revise, at least to verify the standard opinion on the division of the extant text of the Kāśikā between Jayāditya and Vāmana ? Ojihara's research was not completed and did not solve the problem of the division of the parts of the text of the Kāśikāvștti as we know it today between Jayāditya and Vamana. Judging from the state of research, Ojihara believed that each of them had independently commented, in his own time, on all of Pāṇini's grammar.
Ojihara's articles initiated the final stage in the history of these studies. By now the most important references from the Nyāsa and the Padamañjarī, as well as from native commentators, have all been taken, and confidence has been lost that we may be able to learn more about the original work by Jayaditya and Vāmana. The II volume of the latest edition of the Kāśikā with Nyasa and Padamañjari edited by J. Sh. L. Tripathi and S. Malaviya, has