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Studies in Jalnology, Prakrit
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All these gahas are quoted by the author without making any reference to any of the sources and in the manner that each of these appears to form a part of the body of text itself. All these gahas have come down to us in very corrupt form, obviously owing to the ignorance of Prakrit on the part of several persons in the generations of copyists of the manuscripts. Such ignorance is very well reflected in quotations Nos.7 and 8 above: Both of which are the same quoted gahās but corrupt forms in the text of the iwo differ widely. Moreover the technique of indicating a cluster by a bindu in old Kannada manuscripts and the genuine bindu in the gahas, have further confused the editors of all the three editions of this work in arriving at the right readings of some words in these quotations." This made my problem of reconstructing the gāhās er parts of the gahas still harder; and without such reconstruction, my attempt at tracing them to their sources could have been just a misadventure. Hence in respect of same words in these quotations, I tried to replace the clusterindicating bindu (in the Kannada script of the text) by the right chuster2 and, then, go ahead.
Coming to the sources of these quotations, Dr.Upadhye has already noted the sources of quotations Nos 7-8 and 9 as gaha No.69 in Kundakunda's Bārasa Anuvekkhā and as gaha No.225 in Vasunandi's Śrāvakācāra respectively, with a remark that the latter verse is also a quotation in Vasunandi: 3 We should also remember that at that time there was available in print only the portion of Adipurāna, in which quotations Nos.5, 7- 8 and 9 only were available.
My attempt at tracing these quotations to their respective sources has borne fruit as follows:
Quotation No.1 Agahidamissam etc., is gahā 559 in the Jiva Kānda of the Gommatasara.14 Qt.No.2 Osappini etc., is gahā 27 in the Bārasa Aņuvekkhā (Ba. A.) of Kundakunda."Qt.No.4 Nirayāvu etc., is gāhā 28 Ibid. Qt.No.6 Duonadam etc., is gāhā No.104 in the Mulācara of Vattakera. Qt.Nos. 7-8 Damsanavada
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