Vajjalaggam

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

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VAJJĀLAGGAY
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about the names of some of the authors of the stanzas common to the VL and the Gāthāsaptaśati from the traditional information recorded in the MSS of the text and commentaries of the Gathāsaptaśatī,' that does not add to our knowledge about those authors or their works and hence about the sources of the VL.
1. In the case of Hāla's Gathāsaptasats we find the names of the authors mentioned for about 130 out of the first 145 stanzas in the commentaries of Gamgādhara, Kulanāthadeva and Pītāmbara [ Weber (1881), Introduction, pp. LXII-LXVI ]. There are thirteen stanzas in the Vajjālagga which are also met with among the first 145 stanzas of the Gathāsaptašati. In the case of 10 out of these 13 common stanzas we have the names of their authors given in the three commentaries mentioned above, as shown below:
Vajjālagga Saptaśati Name of the author St. No, St. No.
Not mentioned. 206
119
Sālivāhana !or Hāla ). 207
120
Sālivāhana (or Hāla). 348
Manmatha. 354
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Pravararāja. 365
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Lampa (Lampața ?). 374
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Asadrśa. 425
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Gatalajja 462
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Not mentioned. 464
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Malloka (or Adivarāha). [ Weber (1881), p. LIII,
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Mugdhādhipa (or मुग्धदीप). 473
Not mentioned. 643
Anurāga. The stanza-index printed in the Kävyamālā edition (1933) of Gathāsaptaśati gives the names of authors (in Prākrit) in the case of as many as 398 out of the 700 stanzas in the collection and the names of 39 authors in the case of the stanzas common to the Vajjālagga and the Gäthäsaptaśati. The editor does not however
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