Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

Author(s): R G Bhandarkar
Publisher: Government Central Book Depot

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Harshakirti's Dhâtupâtha with a commentary.
rasamuchchaya, (No. 413), which looks like a collec tion of several small works by different authors; the Vivekavilâsa, (No. 455), by Jinadattasûri, in which the author gives the principles of several branches of learning and which also contains moral as well as religious precepts; the Shaddarśanasamuchchaya, (No. 460), giving a brief account of the Brahmanic as well as Jaina and Bauddha systems of philosophy; and the Samayasâraprâbhrita, (No. 462), a work belonging to the Digambara sect, by Kundakundâcharya, who was a celebrated teacher of that sect. The Suktamuktâvalî of Somaprabhâchârya, (No. 469), may also be mentioned in this connection. Somaprabhacharya represents himself Somaprabhacharya's to be the pupil of Vijayasimha who occupied the seat of Highpriest after Ajitadeva; (KK., Appendix II.). All these names occur in the succession list of the pontiffs of the Tapagachchha, and Somaprabhâchârya seems to have lived in the latter part of the twelfth century. (Ind. Ant., Vol. XI., p. 254).
Sûktamuktâvalî.
(B.) Grammar and Lexicons.—We have copies of the Desinâmamâlâ of Hemachandra, (No. 438), of the Siddhaśabdârnava of Sahajakîrti, (No. 466), mentioned above, of Hemachandra's Prakrit Grammar, (No. 458), of the Sabdabhushana, (No. 457), a metrical treatise on grammar by Dânavijaya, (LL., Appendix II.), of a Dhâtupâtha or list of roots according to the Sârasvata system together with a commentary by Harshakîrti, (Nos. 439 and 440), all of which belong to the branches of Lexicography and Grammar. In the Vritti or commentary on his Dhâtupâtha, Harshakîrti gives the senses as well as the verbal and other forms of the several roots quoting the Sârasvata Sutras, and sometimes mentions idiomatic modes of expression. The work thus resembles, to some