Vajjalaggam

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

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INTRODUCTION
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The following stanzas are found to be common between the VL and the Chappannayagāhão or the Gathākośa edited by Dr. A. N. Upadhye in the Journal of the Oriental Institute, Vol. XI, No. 4, June 1962 pp. 385–402. On page 390 Dr. Upadhye lists 12 stanzas as being common to the two collections. Four more common stanzas were however noticed by me. I give below a list of these common stanzas, those not noticed by Dr. Upadhye being marked with the sign s.
Gk = Gāthākośa (Chappaņņayagāhāo).
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(viii)Stanzas from the Vajjālagga cited in Alamkāra Works:
Laber ( loc. cit. p. 4) says: “Because this (ie. Hāla's anchoogy) is the oldest and most famous work of this class of poetry which is known to us, it is already cited in Bāņa ( Harşacarita, Introductory stanza No. 13), and later on several stanzas from it are quoted in Alamkāra literature (Weber (1881) pp. XLIII #.). Of the Vajjālagga on the contrary there is no mention anywhere. Composed by a Svetāmbara Jaina, it appears to have remained confined to this narrow circle ( of Svetāmbara Jains )." It is true that the VL was not as lucky as the Gathā-saptaśatī in the matter of being noticed and eulogised by reputed writers like Bāņa. We do, however, find a number of stanzas from the VL cited in