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Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

1933

The first is Gatha with two lines of 27 Matras each ; the second is the Gatha proper ; the third is Vigatha which is just the reverse of a Gatha and has 27 Matras in the first line and 30 in the second. [...] The Prakrit form of theOathalaksana of Nanditadhya 9 name is Nandiyaddha and the corresponding Sanskrit form is Nanditadhya according to Ratnacandra or Nanditardha accoring to the Avacuri in C. He both composed the definitions and gave the illustrations of the different varieties of the Gatha. [...] The tendency to differentiate between ' the language of the learned ' and ' the language of the masses' however is unmistakably noticeable even in the Jain Pandits. [...] It was after the composition of this work that the Pandits could admit that the Marathi language was capable of expressing the thoughts of the learned. [...] To find out the number of long letters in a Gatha count the number of Matras and deduct from it the total numher of letters in the Gatha; the remainder represents the total number of long letters.
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Authors

Dr. R.N. Dandekar

Pages
167
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v D. R. Bhandarkar, A. B. Gajendragadkar view
Gathalaksana of Nanditadhya
1-38 H. D. Velankar view
Samkara’s Authorship of The Gita-Bhasya
39-60 B. N. Sarma view
A Ms. of Varanga-Carita
61-79 A. N. Upadhye view
Nirvana and Buddhist Laymen
80-86 Bimala Law view
Typical Problems of Hindu Mathematics
87-102 Gurugovinda Chakrabarti view
Nagara Apabhramsa and Nagari Script
103-125 N. B. Divatia view
Miscellanea
126-149 P. K. Gode view
Reviews
150-160 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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