Vajjalaggam

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

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VAJJALAGGAM
about the names of some of the authors of the stanzas common to the VL and the Gathāsaptasat í from the traditional information recorded in the MSS of the text and commentaries of the Gathāsaptaśati,' that does not add to our knowledge about those authors or their works and hence about the souices of the VL.
1. In the case of Hāla's Gathāsaptaśatí 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 Gāthāsaptaśati. 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. 2 2
Not mentioned. 206
119
Salivāhana (or Hāla). 207
Sālivāhana (or Hāla). 348
Manmatha. 354
Pravararāja. 365
Lampa (Lampața ?). 374
Asadrśa. 425
Gatalajja. 462
Not mentioned. 464
Malloka (or Adivarāha). [Weber (1881), p. LIII,
footnote 31 465
Mugdhādhipa (or 909419). 473
Not mentioned. 643
Anurāga. The stanza-index printed in the Kávyamālā edition (1933) of Gathāsaptaśatī 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 Gāthāsaptašati. The editor does not however
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