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L - § 61 Digests, Manuals, etc. dragachchha. It is called Haimalaghunyäsa and purports to be an abridgment of a larger Nyasa by Udayachandra, the author's preceptor.' This latter work has not come down to us. The importance of this commentary mainly consists in that it refers many of Hemachandras's quota- tions to their sources. A third anonymous commentary calls itself Sabdama harṇavanyasa. There do not seem to be existing any more commentaries worth the name. 61. Digests and manuals and other iniscellaneous works. Smaller manuals based on Hemachandra's Sabdanuśāsaṇa have also come down to us, the most famous by far being the Haima-laghuprakriya by Vinayavijayagani, pupil of Kirtivijayagani. It was composed in Samvat 1710=1652 A. D. A commentary on it called Haima-prakāśa was also written by the author some twenty-five years later." A second digest referred to above, called Haimakaumudi alias Chandraprabhã, was put together in Samvat 1725 (=1669 A. D.) by Meghavijaya, one of the sūris who "by the command of the lord of the country (Deśapati) were provided with quarters for the rainy season in the palace of Agarãvara."" This work is said to have been the model for the Siddhantakaumudi. The facts may have been just otherwise. Of lesser lights we have i. Punyasundaragani who arranged for the school the different Sanskrit roots in their alphabetical order giving after each root its mean- ing, gana, and other conjugational peculiarities; ii. Srivallabhavachanacharya who wrote in Samvat 1661, 1 Compare the following stanzas at grant Ser from the Prasasti :- a for art 2 Comp. 79 TV: .........

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unita frangerer carer a tots tentang ......... 4 See before, page 46, noto 3. 5 Feter Report iii. page 1. r