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NOTES
1) The compiler of the present anthology was a Jaina and so he pays homage to , i.e., Jina and to Śrutadevi, the presiding deity of Jaina canonical literature. The author explains the scope of the subhasitas collected in the present anthology as mifiga, connected with righteousness, worldly success and enjoyment of worldly happiness, three out of the goals of human life, the fourth viz. - liberation of the soul from worldly existence-being outside the purview of the anthology.
2) तत्तवन्ति - Laber reads तत्ततत्तिं. The commentary paraphrases this by (talk or gossip about or discourse on love), which raises the presumption that the original reading was ( सखवार्ताम् ) or तत्तवत्तिं (तत्त्ववृत्तिम्, where वृत्ति = वार्ता). The Gāthāsaptaśati (St. 2), reads. af is rendered by commentators on Hala by far. Weber (p. 72 of the 1870 Edn. of the Saptasatakam) says that in the Mss. the conjunct consonants and are not differentiated, so that could very well stand for a. The word ft occurs in Hala 51 and 276. The commentator Kulanathadeva (on Hala 276) says IFTE: 1 Weber equates af with. He translates: And yet they pretend to practise or play on the lyre in the form of the manuals (text-books) of love-how do they not feel abashed? Weber thinks that practising with or playing on the lyre means bestowing care or attention on something. That is how, according to Weber, the sense of चिन्ता may have developed out of तन्त्री. Weber of course is not sure about the correctness of his conjecture and says that there may be altogether a different word underlying
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3) The author says that the present work is an anthology or collection of choice subhasitas (gāthās) composed by different poets and presented here according to a definite plan or system (af), viz. the topic-wise arrangement of the stanzas. The author gives the names of his work as वज्जालग्ग and जयवल्लभ. The term appears to be a general name which could be applied to any collection of stanzas arranged topically, fic name of this collection. The commentator
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