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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
I. 12--Read janasāda-bhavanam for anupa-dabha-vanam, and translate it by " the de
mon's habitat," interpreting janasāda as the same word us the Pali purisa
sādd or porisada which literally means" a man-eater." P. 210-Add : " Vijādharadhidāsa is evidently an expression similar to Vijjahara-nagara.
vāsa (Jaina Jambudvīpa-Prajñapti, Ch. I), which means the Vidyadhara capital (rajadhani).' The Jambudvipa-Prajiapti alludes to 50 Vidyadhara cities in the south, situate on two sides of the Vaitādbya range, extended length wise, dividing South India from the Northern, and to 60 cities in the porth, situate along the spurs of the Himalayan mountain. The cities are described as rich, secure, prosperous and deligntful, where the inbabitants of the towns and districts lived bappily. Their inhabitants who were human
classes of Vidyadharas represented diverse physical types." P. 267--Omit the opinion attributed to Prof. Chatterji and insert : " Prof. S. K. Chatterji
inclines to think that Khāravela is just an Aryanised spelling of a name of Dravidian origin, and that it may be taken to mean 'be of the black lance,' deriving it from the Dravidian karu, meaning 'black' and vel, meaning *a lance,' which both occur in Tamil, and that the Kalinga people inspite of the early inscriptions in the Aryan languages seem to have been non
Aryan speakers down to a late period." P. 312-Read L. 27, if for a; L. 23, is for in and in rows for rows. P. 314-Read L. 8, limbs for imbs; L. 23, female for Säivite.
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