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Zachariae has published a list of words peculiar to the Kashmirian authors and
Prof. Schmidst has supplemented the same.¹ It would be interesting from
literary, linguistic and cultural points of view to prepare vocabularies, with
brief annotations, from the works of Jaina authors of Gujarāta. M. Bloomfield
was the first scholar to draw attention to the importance of the study of
Jaina Skt. in his paper entitled 'Some Aspects of Jaina Skt.' published at
Gottingen in 1923 in the Festschrift Jacob Wackernagel (pp. 220-230).
Dr. Hertel in his edition (pp. 291-295) of the Pañcākhyāna of Pūrṇabhadra
(1199 A.D.) published in the Harvard Oriental Series and Dr. Upadhye in his
introduction (pp. 101-110) to the Bṛhatkathākośa of Hariṣeņa (10th cent. A.D.),
also a Jaina writer from Gujarāta, published in the Singhi Jaina Series, have
given lists of words peculiar to Jaina Skt. occurring in their respective texts;
and a large number of these words can be shown as related etymologically,
phonetically and semantically to the forms prevalent in old and modern
Gujarātī. B. J. Sāṇḍesarā has given a short representative list of such words
from the Prabandhävali of Jinabhadra (1234 A.D.) in his Literary Circle
of Mahamatya Vastupala and Its Contribution to Skt. Literature (pp. 146-147).
Śrī Mohanalal Dalicand Desãi in his monumental Gujarati work on Jaina poets,
pt. I (pp. 227-234), has presented a small list of peculiar words and
expressions from the Prabandha-cintamani of Merutungācārya (1305 A.D.) and
has discussed in brief the salient features of the language of the same.
With these observations we commence a series of Lexicographical Studies
in Jaina Skt. and begin with the Prabandha-cintamani, which was composed
by the Svetambara Jaina pontiff Merutungasūri in 1361 V.S. (1305 A.D.) at
Vardhamanapura or Vaḍhavana-modern Surendranagara in the Jhālāwāḍa
District of Saurāṣṭra. One of the most important Prabandhas composed in
Gujarāta, it is a principal source-book of the history of medieval Hindu
Gujarāta from the times of Caulukya Mūlarāja to the end of the Hindu rule, i.e.,
it covers roughly the period from the middle of the 10th cent. to the end of the
13th cent. A.D. Almost all the subsequent historical Prabandhas written in
Western India have drawn upon the material presented by Merutunga and a
number of historical Rāsas (narrative poems) in old Guj. dealing with the life of
personalities like Kumārapāla, Vastupāla, Vimala etc. composed after the PC.
have also done the same. It has been utilised by historians right onwards from
Mr. Alexander K. Forbes, the renowned author of the Räsamālā, who prepared a
translation of the same for his own use in 1849 A.D. Dr. Bhagawanlal Indraji also
drew upon it while writing the history of Gujarāta in the Bombay Gazetteer,
Vol. I, pt. 1. Sri Ramacandra Dinänātha, who had worked as a Sastri of Peterson,
Kielhorn and Bühler, published for the first time an edition of the Skt. text of
1 Hertel, On the Literature of the Svetämbars of Gujarāt, p. 19.
Zachariae has published a list of words peculiar to the Kashmirian authors and
Prof. Schmidst has supplemented the same.¹ It would be interesting from
literary, linguistic and cultural points of view to prepare vocabularies, with
brief annotations, from the works of Jaina authors of Gujarāta. M. Bloomfield
was the first scholar to draw attention to the importance of the study of
Jaina Skt. in his paper entitled 'Some Aspects of Jaina Skt.' published at
Gottingen in 1923 in the Festschrift Jacob Wackernagel (pp. 220-230).
Dr. Hertel in his edition (pp. 291-295) of the Pañcākhyāna of Pūrṇabhadra
(1199 A.D.) published in the Harvard Oriental Series and Dr. Upadhye in his
introduction (pp. 101-110) to the Bṛhatkathākośa of Hariṣeņa (10th cent. A.D.),
also a Jaina writer from Gujarāta, published in the Singhi Jaina Series, have
given lists of words peculiar to Jaina Skt. occurring in their respective texts;
and a large number of these words can be shown as related etymologically,
phonetically and semantically to the forms prevalent in old and modern
Gujarātī. B. J. Sāṇḍesarā has given a short representative list of such words
from the Prabandhävali of Jinabhadra (1234 A.D.) in his Literary Circle
of Mahamatya Vastupala and Its Contribution to Skt. Literature (pp. 146-147).
Śrī Mohanalal Dalicand Desãi in his monumental Gujarati work on Jaina poets,
pt. I (pp. 227-234), has presented a small list of peculiar words and
expressions from the Prabandha-cintamani of Merutungācārya (1305 A.D.) and
has discussed in brief the salient features of the language of the same.
With these observations we commence a series of Lexicographical Studies
in Jaina Skt. and begin with the Prabandha-cintamani, which was composed
by the Svetambara Jaina pontiff Merutungasūri in 1361 V.S. (1305 A.D.) at
Vardhamanapura or Vaḍhavana-modern Surendranagara in the Jhālāwāḍa
District of Saurāṣṭra. One of the most important Prabandhas composed in
Gujarāta, it is a principal source-book of the history of medieval Hindu
Gujarāta from the times of Caulukya Mūlarāja to the end of the Hindu rule, i.e.,
it covers roughly the period from the middle of the 10th cent. to the end of the
13th cent. A.D. Almost all the subsequent historical Prabandhas written in
Western India have drawn upon the material presented by Merutunga and a
number of historical Rāsas (narrative poems) in old Guj. dealing with the life of
personalities like Kumārapāla, Vastupāla, Vimala etc. composed after the PC.
have also done the same. It has been utilised by historians right onwards from
Mr. Alexander K. Forbes, the renowned author of the Räsamālā, who prepared a
translation of the same for his own use in 1849 A.D. Dr. Bhagawanlal Indraji also
drew upon it while writing the history of Gujarāta in the Bombay Gazetteer,
Vol. I, pt. 1. Sri Ramacandra Dinänātha, who had worked as a Sastri of Peterson,
Kielhorn and Bühler, published for the first time an edition of the Skt. text of
1 Hertel, On the Literature of the Svetämbars of Gujarāt, p. 19.