Vajjalaggam

Author(s): M V Patwardhan
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society

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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 Gahādāra stanzas,” the original Vajjālagga 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 Gähädāra stanzas, 43 can be clearly identified with those in the Vulgate. Two [viz, atafal No. 41 and got (clouds, rainy season) No. 47] have no corresponding Vajjās in the Vulgate. Three (viz. Al"HTU No. 35, 91787qy No 43 and affaqat No. 41) are doubtful in their identificationi corresponding perhaps to हिययसंवरण No. 47, बालासंवरण No. 57 and sleufgaar 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 9949581 No. 18 in the original Vajjālagga may have been split up into 75761 No. 15 and 1949871 No. 16 in the Vulgate, The Hagh1 No. 46 in the original Vajjālagga may have been split up into faqehr No. 28 and HATTH551 No. 82 in the Vulgate Similarly the 11449541 No. 45 in the original Vajjālagga may have been divided into qaf47331 No. 38 and 19445571 No. 45 in the Vulgate, Sections such as faca No. 11, ale No. 12, ato No. 13, gifte No. 14. gā994577 No. 74, go No. 76, gunoizi No. 77, JUHATE. No. 78, 97* No. 80, Relóci No. 81,7347 No.88,740197 No. 89. AYEMCI 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.
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