Vajjalaggam

Author(s): Jayvallabh
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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INTRODUCTION
by the name af. The word 71 standing for Sanskrit 737 is according to Pischelf to be understood in the sense of fame. He refers to Hemacandra's Dešināmamāla VII. 17 ( asari qa) for that sense. So according to Pischel Vajjālagga would mean a collection of stanzas of which the Vrajjā atsargement (groupwise or topical arrangement) is a distinguisting mark. It is, however, likely that the word (= 27 conveys the sense of TifaT, FRC, or 4779 (a collection or aggregate), though the word *5*2is neither found recorded in the dictionaries, nor used in Sanskrit literature in that sense. 7567133377 therefore perhaps stands for ASJAHE, a collection of 2531s or stanza.groups arrarged ore after another, each stanze-group dealir g with a separate topic. Viśvanātha (Sahityadarpaņa VI. 329) explains the word dat as HA171227 7:, which mears the grouping of star.zas similar in their general purport or dealing with one and the same topic.
From the manner in which the sense of the word Vajjālagga. is explained in st. 4, it would appear that the autor locks upon Vajjālag ga as a class-name given to any collection of stanzagroups dealing with different topics. In sienia 3 the author says. that he has compiled the Vajjālagga, called ty the specific name Jayavallaha, after collecting together choice groups of stanzas composed by different poets. This means that Vajiālagga is the
1. PG $ 12, note 4, p. 10.
2. Pāṇini (VII.2.18) mentions 27 as a past participle (from ✓at to stick, cling or adhere ) in the sense of HF (i,e. 195). According to Pāņini III.3.114, past participles can, when used in the neuter gender, convey the sense of action-nouns. There is thus no theoretical difficulty in understanding the past participle ga in the sense of tifat or 46. 3. कोशः श्लोकसमूहस्तु स्यादन्योन्यानपेक्षकः। व्रज्याक्रमेण रचितः स एवातिमनोरमः ।।
सजातीयानामेकत्र संनिवेशो ज्या यथा मुक्तावल्यादिः। grafi is the name by wbich Sadhāraṇadeva's recension of Häla's Gathā-saptaśati is knowa. 4. विविहकइविरइयाण गाहाणं वरव.काणि नग । रइयं वरनालगं विहिणा जयवरहं नाम ॥