Jaina Bibliography Part 2

SR No.: 016036
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Veer Seva Mandir Trust
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 900
Language: English
Classification: Dictionary & Dictionary
File Size: 15 MB

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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
(3) Jineswarasüri-1024 A.D.
(4) Laghusamantabhadra-about 1000 A.D.
(5) Vadidevasūri-about 1050 A.d.
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P. V. BAPAT-The Relalion Between Pali nnd Ardhamagadht, (I. H. Q. Vol. IV,
1928).
P. 29. Jains believed Ardhamägadht to be the language of gods and ṛsis.
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George A. GRIERSON-The Sauraseni and Magadha Stabakas of Rama Šarman Tarkavaglia (Ind. Ant. vol. LVII-1928, Bombay).
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Pp. 28-29. Supplement Magadhi; Ardhamagadhi and Dākṣinātya. Magadhi is the language of carnivorans (demons), of religious mendicants, orthodox and heterodox.
Ardhamägadhi is the speech of female demons (rākṣast), merchants (resthin -? can this word refer to Jaina merchants, the modern Seths ?), servants (ceta), and (?). ascetics (amukampya-the reading doubtful).
2093
T. K. LADDU-Introduction to Trivikrama's Prakrit Grammar, (translated from the German by P. V. Rämänujaswämi). (A.B.O.R.I., vol. X; 1930).
P. 177. Introduction-origin of Language... Vedic Skr. source of the Prakrit...Prakrit literature. Religious and Grammatical... Prakrit Grammarians...
Ch. III: Comparison bet. Trivikram & Hemachandra. Gautama and Mahavira, the contemporaries lived in the Pre-Paninian period-about 500 m.c. P. 182. Buddhist and Jain writers accepted them...dialects.
Several Prakritists come after Vararuci, among other, Canda wrote: the Prakrit lakshana and Dhanapal composed a Präkrit Dictionary 'Paiyalacchi". We then come to the great Prakrit grammarian. Hemachandra (1088-1172) (see Pischel, Gr. 36).
*f.n,cf. Prof JACOB's remarks in the Introd. to his ed. of the Kalpasütra.