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geneous groups even before they were incorporated in the VL, from already existing collections of which they must have formed organic parts, and in which they must have occurred as topically coherent groups. Further, stanzas containing Vocative forms like jaft (143), 4913 (701), FOIE (151), ART (154), qfi4a (155) would appear to have been derived by the author from some contexts where the stanzas in question were among others addressed to some lady or to some king. Laber (loc. cit. p. 4) says that in the case of nine of the stanzas in the VL (viz. 174, 249, 272, 327, 447, 448, 419, 453, and 529), the nouns (viz. DETTA, HATEA, sant, पिए, तरुणीहिं, हियय and धम्मिय) qualified by adjuncts used in those stanzıs are not expressed and have got to be supplied. This shows that these stanzas must have been derived from other collections in which subjects corresponding to the nouns qualified by the adjuncts were under description.
This is all that can be said about the sources of the VL. (vii) Stanzas common to the Vajjālagga and
(1) the Gāthāsaptaśati, and (ii) Chappaņņayagāhāo:
According to Laber (loc. cit. p. 36, footnote 1) there are 76 stanzas common to the VL and the Gathāsaptaśati (including the additional stanzas found in the various recensions other than the Vulgate in Gamgadhara's recension and printed by Weber in the 1881 edition on pages 372-508). On carefully going through Weber's edition, I found that one of the stanzas (st. 879 in Weber's edition) agrees with st. 494 in the Vajjālagga only in the second half, the first half being considerably different in the two
(Continued from page xxv) (a) 55, 56, 62, 274 : cato art fea9 3737a. (b) 122,125 : ATEN T IE . (c) 484, 490 : 37agui Ant. (d) 606, 608-610: Å FÅ 76. (e) 614, 618, 619 : que ven. (f) 678-680 : GĘ Pot faifa. 'tg) 698, 700 : aus HIQU. (b) 706, 707 : 36 798 $401 ti ) 772, 773 : A #Tatt fe.
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