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On the Sanskrit Suktiratnahara of Prakrit Subhasta-s
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known' (e.g. verses 33, 36 and 39 of the Annex).
(8) Many of the so-called Hāla's Sattaga: verses whicb occur in the SRHt. were not culled from the classical text of the Sattasan, but from Hala's work which occurs in one or more texts only and do not belong to the core of the Sattasai, and 80 verses 3, 26, 31, 38 and 41 of the Annex appear only in the Telingala recension I and verses 25, 37 and 40 of the Annex occor only among the so-called verses which appear as quotations in the alankara literature. That seems to show that Hala's incerta were generally consi. dered as Hala's genuine verses either at the time when the SRHt. was composed (1 e, in the begioning of the fourteenth century, or at the time when scribe added them to the SRHttext)
(9) Most of the Hala's verses of the SRHt were influenced by the Jaina recension from Western India. That can be seen from the fact that many varlants which occur in Hala's text, as reproduced in the SRHt, can only be traced in this recension; that is the case of verses Nos. 1, 5, 6, 8, 27, and 42 of the Annex
(10) Generally, authors or compilors of Prakrit subhasita-sangraha-s, culled their verses from the Sattasal, Out of the forty-two verses from the Sattasal which were or were not specifically attribated in the SRHt to Hala's work, but which were Sattasai's versos, eleven verses appear also in Jayavallabha's Vajjalaggam (verses Nos. 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 2020, 21, 22, and 39 of the Annex), three in the Ggharayanakosa (GRK) (verses Nos, 17, 30 and 33 of the Annex), one in the Subhasiyagabasamgabo (SGS) (verso No, 22 of the Annex) and one in the Subbasiyapajjasamgaho (SPS) (verse No, 27 of the Annex). The text of the subhasita-Sangraha-s does not follow always exactly the wording of Hæla's verges21
(11) As noted above, the SSSN., which is either the same work as the SRHt, or another ver81on of the same text22, Omite almost all Prakrit verses included in the SRHt, it keeps, however, four Prakrit verses culled from Hala's Sattagar, these are verses 24, 25, 27 and 41 of the Annex, of which one 18, similarly as in the SRHt, specifically attributed to the Sattagal (verse No, 25 of the Annex) and one is, similarly as in the SRHt., speclfically attributed to the Gathakosa (verse, No. 41 of the Annex). The text of the SSSN. is identical with the text of the SRHt, and both texts contain even the same mistakes, this seems to be an additional proof that the SSSN and the SRHt are the same work or other versions of the samo
19 Noted by A Weber in bis Das Saptakam des Hala (see para 16.3 below). 20 This verse was probably not attributed to Hala See above para 6 and footnote 15. 21 E gvorse 12 of the Annex 22 op cit, (fn. 5).
