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Introduction
(folios 127; size 12 x 27.5 cms.) dated V.Sam. 1973 of the Kāntivijaya-Bhandāra (No. 2035) is preserved in the Shri Atmananda Jaina Jnānamandira, Baroda. 30
The readings of the text of the TM accepted by this commentary are sometimes not very exact. As, it leaves out many many passages, about the critical readings of which it is only “generally helpful" as has been rightly evaluated by Pandits Virachand Prabhudas. 31 Moreover, the anthor of this commentary has misunderstood a few passages which have been consequently misinterpreted by him.
(4) Parāga - vivrti :- This commentary was composed by Shri Vijayalavanyasūri, a disciple of a well-known Jain Ācārya Shri Vijayanemisüri. Born at Botad (in Saurashtra) in V.Sam. 1953 (i.e. 1897 A.D.) as a son of Jivanlal and Amritben, and named Lavji, he took to ascetic life at a tender age of nineteen years and had his initiation (diksā) at the holy hands of the able preceptor Shri Vijayanemisuri, who rechristened him as 'Muni Lavanya-vijaya. The pupil devoted himself to the study of Sanskrit lore, especially Grammar, Logic and Jain Agamas and Prakaranas, and grew under him gradually as a 'Gani', 'Pannyäsa', 'Upadhyāya', and finally blossomed forth into a full Acārya' authorized to the title "Suri". 32
Shri Vijayalavanyasari scems to have been a prolific writer, being eminently wellversed in both Sanskrit and Prakrit. His nastery of Sanskrit Grammar deserves to be specially noted in view of the fact that in the long history of Sanskrit Grammatical Literature he is the only scholar who has attempted a comprehensive declension of all the 1974 roots of Sanskrit (listed by Hemacandra) in all the possible primary and secondary derivations and in all the tenses and the moods. His encyclopaedic Dhāturatnākara in seven volemes is a solid contribution to the Sanskrit Grammatical Literature, and a fine tribute to the versatile genius Ācārya Hemacandra, whose system, as expounded in his "Siddha-haima-sabdānuśāsana', the sūri followed. 33 Beside the above-mentioned work and the Parāga commentary on the TM, his other works are : (i) a Vrtti on Hemacandra's Kavyānušāsana; (ii) an elaborate commentary on the three Sūtras of Umäsväti's Tattartha-sutta; (iii) a commentary on the Nayarahasya of Yasovijaya Gani; (iv) a commentary named Tattvāvabodha on the Jaina-tarkabhāṣā or Anckanta-vyavasthā; (v) the Bālāvabodha-Vịtti on the Sapta-bhangi-naya30. This ms, was kindly loaned to me by Shri Gulabchand Zaveri of Baroda, along
with other mss. 31. TMKS, Intro., p. 2 a : 9:7 "Tea Ata: Tiertara”.
Ha4 ls For detailed account of all such passages see my paper entitled "Dhanapala, His
Comantary and their Misiatrpretacions, published in "Vidya’ 1976. 32. TM(P), Pt. I, Intro., pp. 34 - 35. 33. Dh. R., Pt, I, Intry., vs. 18 : fara a aaea for Aanî: 1 quartos:
aff : ficha: 11 c11
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