Nighantu Shesh

Author(s): Punyavijay
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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5. tao This sign refers to the Nighantusesakosa printed as the pineth kosa in the Abhidhanasangraha part II published by the owners of the Nirnayasagara Press in V. S. 1952. As other old mss. were not available to the learued editor, this edition abounds in errors that have resulted from inisreadings of the script; at places the verses have been dropped and readings have become topsyturvy. The verses sixteen and a quarter that occur after the benedictory verse were not available to the editor. Hence he has kept that much blank space in his edition. In spite of all this we should acknowledge our indebtedness to and express our sense of gratitude towards the editor who made available this important text in those days. I have thoroughly utilized this edition. For that I am very thankful to the learned editor and also to the owners of the Nirnayasagar Press. I have critically edited the Nighantusesakosa along with its commentary on the basis of these five mss. 9 9, 9 and 5-these three mss. belong to my personal Collection of Mss. I have given in foot-notes all the useful notes that are found in the margin of these mss. After most of the portion of the text had been printed we obtained the go and go mss. Hence their variants, the useful notes and the popular names (given at the end of the list of the synonyms) are given in the relevant Appendices. The model ms. or mss. of the Nighantusesa kosa that Sri Srivallabha Upadhyaya utilised for the composition of the commentary are very different from the go and go mss. that we utilised for the preparation of this edition. The scholars will realise the fact when they study the variants noted down by us in the First Appendix. Again, the mss. utilised by Sri Srivallabha Upadhyaya give the readings which do not correspond to the quotations from the Dhanvantarinighantu which he himself has given in his commentary. On the other hand, the mss. of the Haimapighantusesakosa utilised by us give the readings tbat correspond with those quotations. I am not able to obtain the mss. of that group to which belonged the mss. utilised by Sri Srivallabha Upadhyaya for the composition of the commentary. Of course, I have obtained one ms. which gives readings that correspond, to a certain extent, to those on the basis of which Sri Srivallabha composed his Tika. (This ms. belongs to the Ac. Sri Veddhicandrasuriji Jnana Bhandara, preserved in the Hemacandra Jaina Jnana Bhandara, Patap. Ac. Viddhicandraji was a resident of Jesalmer and he belonged to Kharatara Gaccha.) From this it seems that afterwards the number of variants might have increased to a considerable extent on account of scriptological errors. The Age of Sri Srivallabha Upadhyaya was the age of political wars