Vajjalaggam

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

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INTRODUCTION
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must have undergone inflation at the hands of people of subsequent times'.
Not only was there an addition to the original number (700) of the stanzas, but also the original number of Vajjās or sections went on increasing with the passage of time. To judge from the statement in st. 5 of the Gāhādāra stanzas, 2 the original Vajjā. lagga of 700 stanzas was divided into 48 sections only. The Vulgate as printed in the Bibliotheca Indica edition and in the present edition contains as many as 95 sections. This means that the original number of sections has been almost doubled in course of time. As shown in the notes on st. 8 (p. 419), out of the 48 Vajjās enlisted in the Gāhādāra stanzas, 43 can be clearly identified with those in the Vulgate. Two [viz, arafat No. 41 and q (clouds, rainy season) No. 47] have no corresponding Vajjās in the Vulgate Three (viz. #lata No. 35, almaq, No 43 and arafael No. 41) are doubtful in their identification corresponding perhaps to fequito No. 47, atomiRU No. 57 and
fenfgaar No. 58 respectively. It is possible that some of the 48 sections in the original Vajjālagga were split up into two each in course of time, thus adding to the number of the sections. For example the 924851 No. 18 in the original Vajjālagga may have been split up into 43761 No. 15 and 194771 No. 16 in the Vulgate,
The 49351 No. 46 in the original Vajjālagga may have been split up into #q&No. 28 and 9A17E51 No. 82 in the Vulgate® Similarly the 4942651 No. 45 in the original Vajjālagga may have been divided into qaf49841 No. 38 and 4f97a71 No. 45 in the Vulgate. Sections such as Peca No. 11, fate No. 12, at No. 13, afte No. 14. qəq No. 74, got No. 76, Jonat No. 77, TATT. No. 78, *** No. 80, FHSIDai No. 81, azaza No. 88,740176 No. 89. FESTIGT No. 90 and many others in the Vulgate, appear to have been absent in the original VL, but were newly incorporated in the Vulgate in course of time. The order too of the sections in the original Vajjālagga appears to have been considerably upset in the Vulgate.
It is further to be noted, that if the original VL contained only 48 sections and 700 stanzas, the average length of each sec
1. See Winternitz loc.cit. p. 103, 2. ...... FTESTIT I go agat ata qwas alga