Desinammala

SR No.: 016019
Original Sutra Author: Hemchandracharya
Author: R Pischel
Publisher: Department Public Instruction Bombay
Publication Year: 1938
Total Pages: 514
Language: English, Prakrit, Hindi
Classification: Dictionary & Dictionary
File Size: 11 MB

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Dešināma mālā.
these works, Whenever there was any difference of spelling between the two works, I have invariably followed the spelling of the Desinümumilū. For the forms not found in this work, the spelling of the grammar is adopted
Lastly, the interjectional and other particles, like the Verbal Substitutes, have been taught by Hemacandra in his grammar; but as they have been included in desī words by other writers, Hemacandra follows the same plan with regard to them as he did with regard to the Verbal Substitutes. I have added a list of these at the end collecting them from this work as well as from his grammar. In this way every word either in the text or in the commentary of the work, has been included in one index or other. In the last two indexes no attempt is made to suggest any derivation.
The life of Hamacandra is narrated in Kumārapalāprabandha, Praba. ndhakośa, Praband hacintamani, Rişimandalavrtti, Prabhāvakacarita and Kumārapālacarita (of Jinamandana ). Dr Bhau Daji has given a short account of his life as narrated in the first of the above works in the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (Pt. xxvi. pp. 222-224). A fuller account of his life is given in Forbe's Rasam ala from which a few extracts have been given by S. P. Pandit in the introduction to his edition of Kumārapālacarita. Dr Bühler has given a complete account of his life in his Ueber das Leben des Jaina Mönches Hemacandra (1889), which was, however, not available to me.
But there is another work called Kumārapālacarita by Jayasimhasūri. It is a Mahākāvya in ten cantos consisting in all of over 6000 stanzas. A Ms. copy of the work is found in the Fort Library of H. H. the Maharaja Bahadur of Vizianagaram. It gives an account of the life and adventures of Kumārapāla from his birth to his death. A pretty long account of Hemacandra's life is also given therein. As the account given there differs in some details from that contained in any of the above works, I give below a few extracts from the work.
स सूरिः [ देवचन्द्रः ] विहरन्नाप मूतॊ धर्म इव स्वयम् । पुरं गूर्जरदेशीयं धंधूक इति विश्रुतम् ॥ १३४ ॥ तत्र मोढान्वयः प्रौढद्रढिमा सुरशैलवत् । आसीस्छ्रे ( ? ) ष्ठमतिः श्रेष्ठी धर्मिष्ठश्चाचिगाह्वयः ॥ १३६ ॥ गेहिनी देहिनीव श्रीस्तस्याभूद्भाग्यभङ्गिभूः। पाहिनी कामहृत्कीलशीललीलावगाहिनी ॥ १३८ ॥ __ अन्येयुः सुखसुप्ता सा स्वप्ने चिन्तामणिं शुभम् । लब्ध्वा दत्वा गुरुभ्यश्च जागरामास तत्क्षणम् ॥ १३९ ॥ तया स्वप्नफलं पृष्टो देवचन्द्रप्रभुर्जगौ। भावी तव सुतः कोऽपि भद्रे लोकोत्तरस्थितिः ॥ १४० ॥