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etymological explanations is also given. The Sanskrit and Prakrit etyrologies are based sometimes on Sanskrit etymological works and the vast Jain literature including the Cūrņis and other commentaries. Some etymologies seem to be purely personal and many times imaginery, most of them being root-based. In the preface and the introduction some preliminary remarks are made about the nature of elymological explanations.
The work is sure to impell research in various directions. First of all the etymologies presented here, have nothing to do with Brahmanical atmosphere. It seems to be strictly local and therefore worth doing research into.
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The origipal sources of these etymologies have little in they are based on a vast literature.
The editors have stated that the first Appendix has grouped such words as are formed from the primary suffixe anat. This refers to the etymological word atifayanam, which is formed from the suffix anat, the other word, its Sanskrit equivalent is atisaya. Its Prakrit counterpart is aisaya, which is listed. So the basis of this appendix are those Sanskrit words which are found from the anat-suffix and for which Prakrit counterparts are available in the Jain literature.
The etymologies in the second Appendix in which are collected names of the tirthankaras are purely personal, being mainly based on maternal contexts.
The material collected in this work is valuable in the sense that we have here, for a research worker, a vast source of social, religious, giammatical and philosophical contexts, which will be helpful in unfolding the minds of the Jain scholars of the old times, their original contribution, their knowledge of popular tradition and their reliance, if any, on the Brahmanical and the Buddhist sources.
The editors and their baad of enthusiastic workers deserve our praise.
-J. M. Shukla KÄRAKAPRAKARANAM, as forming part of the Vaiyākaraṇasiddhānta Kaumudi, with Gujarati translation, notes and explanations by Vasant. Kumar Manubhai Bhatt. Sarasvati Pustakabhandāra, Ahmedabad; Price Rs. 45-00
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