Prakrit Suktaratnamala

Author(s): Puranchand Nahar
Publisher: Puranchand Nahar

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[ 3 ] I regret that I did not keep notes of the various sources from which the verses had been taken. For then I could have presented to the reader a proper index with references, which, I consider, is a necessary appendage to such a collection. But nevertheless I should point out that many of the verses are very old. For example verse 147 of the collection finds place in Vasudeva Hindia work of great antiquity. Verses 18 and 19 have been quoted by Acharya Devasuri in his Padmaprava Charitam, (S. 1254=1198 A, D.)
The verses are arranged according to their subjects, and it is needless for me to point out that the idea of moral life runs through most of them.
I take this opportunity of offering my sincere thanks to Pandit Hargobindasji, Lecturer in Prakrit in the Calcutta University, for his valuable services in revising the whole of the text and Sanskrit rendering and arranging the Subhasitas according to their subjects. He has also added a few grammatical notes on important words which find place in foot-notes bere and there with the abbreviations H. D. and H. P. The former stands for Vargas and Slokas from 'Desinamamala' of Hemchandra, edited by Pischel and Buhler, Bombay 1880 (Bombay Sanskrit Series) and the latter refers to Padas and Slokas of Eighth Adhyaya of Siddha Hemchandra Grammar being an Appendix to his "Kumarpala Charita' edited by S. P. Pandit, Bombay 1900 (Bombay Sanskrit Series).