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15. Śabdaratnākara by Sadhusundaragani (AD 1623), pupil of Sādhukirti Upadhyaya of Kharataragaccha. Containing 1011 verses, it is divided into 6 Kāṇḍas viz. Arhatkāṇḍa, Devakāṇḍa, Mānavakāṇḍa, Tiryakkāṇḍa, Narakakāṇḍa and Samanyakāṇḍa. Sadhusundaragani also wrote Uktiratnākara and Dhaturatnākara. Pub. The text, Yasovijaya Jaina Granthamala, Series No.36, Bhavnagar 1912. // Mns. Buh. III. No. 313, Mitra. VIII. P.11; Pet.I. No.339.
Ardhamāgadhi-Dctionary
1. Jainagamaśabdasangraha, an Ardhamagadhi-Gujrati dictionary, containing also Sanskrit rendering of the Prakrit words, is based on Jaina canonical texts as well as Karmagranthas, Viseṣāvasyakabhāṣya, Pravacana-Sāroddhāra etc. ancient Jaina texts. Pub. ed. Śatāvadhānī Muni Ratnacandra, Gulabavira Text S. No. 4, Sanghvi Gulabacand Jasaraj, Lymbdy 1926, p. 16, 818.
An Illustrated Ardhamagadhi Dictionary, 5 Vols. is a voluminous Ardhamagadhi-Gujrati-Hindi-English polyglot, containing about 50,000 words. It has Sanskrit equivalents of Ardha-Magadhi terms. It deals with the words, collected from whole of the Śvetambar canons and other important ancient Jaina texts. It is greatly enriched by an exhaustive and scholarly introduction by A C Woolner. The observation of H. V. Glasenapp about this work is a testimony to its importance and wide range utility. He said that this dictionary filled a decided gap in the literature devoted to this important branch of Oriental studies and would be found invaluable to all who are interested in the language, literature and philosophy of Jainism. Pub. By Śatāvadhānī Ratnacandra, Indore Ist ed. 1933. // Second Rep. ed. Amara Publication, Varanasi 1988. // Also Reprinted, Motional Banarasidass, Delhi 1988. P. (Vol.1) 511, (2) 1002, (3), (3) 701, (4) 912,103, (5) 857, 12, 21.
Apabhramsa Kośa
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Uktiratnākara (AD 1623) by Sadhusundaragaṇi, the disciple of Pāṭhaka Sadhukīrti, is an Auktika work meant for understanding the Sanskrit alternatives of the colloquial terms prevalent in dialects especially Deśya and Apabhramśa. This work contains about 2400 such words and their Sanskrit alternatives. Sadhusundara wrote
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