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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
NOTES
1) The compiler of the present anthology was a Jaina and so he pays homage to him, i.e., Jina and to Srutadevī, the presiding deity of Jaina canonical literature. The author explains the scope of the subhasitas collected in the present anthology as manifestarigi, 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) pant - Laber reads arh. The commentary paraphrases this by Traqlanat (talk or gossip about or discourse on love), which raises the presumption that the original reading was 779€ ( = patir ) or 79 (aragiot, where gfe = arat). The Gāthāsaptaśati (St. 2), reads apart. afet is rendered by commentators on Hāla by Tal. Weber (p. 72 of the 1870 Edn. of the Saptaśatakam) says that in the Mss. the conjunct consonants and 77 are not differentiated, so that that could very well stand for tadia. The word af occurs in Hāla 51 and 276. The commentator Kulanāthadeva (on Hāla 276) says áfagra festa papa: 1 Weber equates tarafa with nestra. He translates : And yet they pretend to practise or play on the lyre in the form of the manuals (texe-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 falecil may have developed out of trail. Weber of course is not sure about the correctness of his conjecture and says that there may be altogether a different word underlying aft.
3) The author says that the present work is an anthology or collection of choice subhāşitas (gāthās) composed by different poets and presented here according to a degnite plan or isystem ( fri), viz. the topic-wise arrangement of the stanzas. The author gives the names of his work as a tea and Yesh. The term 45015711 appears to be a general name which could be applied to any collection of stanzas arranged topically. 3740914 is the specific name of this collection. The commentator says in the
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