Studies in Desya Prakrit

Author(s): H C Bhayani
Publisher: Kalikal Sarvagya Shri Hemchandracharya Navam Janmashatabdi Smruti Sanskar Shikshannidhi Ahmedabad

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5. See the word-index (prepared by R. N. Shriyan) to Santisuri's Puhaicamdacariya edited by Muni Ramnikvijaya, 1972. In the Index of Deśya words given in the third Appendix to Śilanka's Caupannamahāpusisacariya (ed. by A. M. Bhojaka, 1961), composed in 869 A.D. some five hundred items are listed. Similarly from the Akhyanakamanikosavṛtti of Amradeva (ed. by Muni Punyavijaya, 1962), composed in 1134 A.D. about four hundred Deśya words are noted in the third Appendix to that work. Actually both those works contain many more Deśya words.
6. See H. C. Bhayani, Studies in Hemcandra's Desināmamālā, 1966.
7. See H. C. Bhayani, Origins of multiple meanings of Desya words', Vidya, 9. 1967, pp. 30-37.
8. For an account of the studies in Jain Sanskrit by M. Bloomfield, J. Hertel, M. D. Desai, Helen Johnson, A. N. Upadhye, B. J. Sandesara, J. P. Thakar and J. Deleu see H. C. Bhayani, see Introduction to Prabandha-pancasati, edited by Mrgendra Muni, 1968, Surat.
Post seript: In 1988 Jain Vishva Bharati of Läḍnun has published Desi Sabdakośa edited by Muni Dulahraj which is a compilation of Deśya words from (1) Jain Agamka literature and Hemacandra's Deśināmamālā, (2) from the Păiasaddamahannavo and the word-indexes given at the and of various Prakrit and Apabhramsa published works, and (3) from the list of Dhatvadeśas given in Prakrit grammars.