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Vol. XXV, 2002 SARASVATIKANTHABHARAN...
105 Devarāja Yajvan quotes Bhoja in his Nighantu-nirvacanam (edited by Sudyumnācārya and published by Ram Lall Kapoor Trust, Bahalgarh, 1998) at the following pages :
By name : 3 13 14 19 20 24 26 31 39(2) 49(2) 52 55 67 83 92 102 117 122 123 127 128(2) 129 131 135 137 138 139 150 178(2) 207 210 216 ---- Total 36 times SKĀ sūtras quoted without mentioning by name : 41 144 152 154 157 179 183 186 188(2) 189 201 202 204 206(2) 208 209 210(2) 211 214 216 230 237 244 246 274 276 279 281 282 284(3) 285(2) 288 290 291(2) 301 302 308 310 311(2) 322
---- Total 48 times Dandanātha-vștti (by name) : 152 198 202
On page 210 under the commentary on 'durone' the Bhojasūtra (2. 2. 184) is mentioned along with its vrtti. But this vitti is found otherwise in · Trivandrum Edition.
Scholars like Bhimsen Šāstri and Hariscandramaņi Tripāțhi have made good use of the SKĀ and its commentary in their theses entitled 'Nyās Paryālocan' and Nipătarthanirnayah' respectively, published by Bhaimi Prakashan, New Delhi, 1979 and Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishvavidyalaya, 1991. 12. Akṣepas against SKĀ
Certain modern scholars like K. V. Abhyanker and Nemicandra Šāstri have put up aksepas against this monumental work. K. V. Abhyankar says in 'A Dictionary of Sanskrit Grammar – "By the anxiety of the author to bring together, the necessary portions of the gana-patha and the paribhāsās, which the author has included in his eight chapters, the book instead of being easy to understand, has lost the element of brevity and become tedious for reading. Hence it is not studied widely."
-It appears that reading the Pāṇinian grammar scattered in different books like the Astādhyayi with Kasikā and Mahābhāsya, gana-pātha, Unādi-patha, phit
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