________________ Research Unit Publications, No. 5 DIAMOND JUBILEE 1917-1977 VEDAVIKRTILAKSANA-SAMGRAHA (A collection of twelve tracts on Vedavikṛtis and allied topics) Compiled and Critically edited with Introduction and variant readings by The Late Prof. K. V. Abhyankar and G. V. Devasthali BHANDARKAR ORIENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE POONA 411 004 (INDIA) 1978 ________________ Published by: Dr. R. N. Dandekar, Hon. Secretary, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona-411 004 June, 1978 Printed at: The Bhandarkar Institute Press, Poona-411 004 tut tenoitoalion A) ________________ In recent years, Professor K. V. Abhyankar had been taking deep interest, among other things, in the various modes of Vedic recita- tion. In the course of his study, he had collected a number of texts on the subject-big and small with a view to eventually editing them and publishing them in a single volume on the lines of his Paribhāṣāsamgraha (pub. BORI, 1970). But, alas, while the printing of his projected work had made but a little progress in the Institute's Press, Professor Abhyankar died in unbelievably tragic circumstances. The ghastly end of this doyen of Vedists and Paninian scholars in Western India shocked the entire Sanskrit world. I had promised Professor Abhyankar that his Vedavikṛtilakṣaṇa- samgraha would be one of the proud publications of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute. to be announced on the occasion of its Diamond Jubilee. I, therefore, persuaded my friend and colleague, Professor G. V. Devasthali, to complete this work and see it through press. Professor Devasthali, it will be agreed, has done his job with exemplary conscientiousness. Incidentally he has also helped me to fulfil my promise. We, at the Bhandarkar Institute, were looking forward to the wise guidance and stewardship of Professor Abhyankar (who was Chairman of the Institute's Executive Board at the time of his death) in connection with the Institute's Diamond Jubilee. Unfortunately, all that is now left to us to do is to pay our grateful homage to his reverentially cherished memory. Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Роопа June 1, 1978 R. N. Dandekar ________________ Introduction TABLE OF CONTENTS विकृतिवल्ली ( व्याडिकृता ) विकृतिवल्ली (विकृतिकौमुदीसमेता ) अष्टविकृतिलक्षणानि (सटीकानि ) (परिशिष्टम् ) जटापटलम् (हयग्रीवकृतम् ) जटापटलकारिका (अनन्ताचार्यव्याख्यायुता) जटापटलम् (सटीकम् ) जटापटलम् (दयाशङ्करकृतदीपिकासमेतम् ) अष्टविकृतिविवृतिः (मधुसूदन मस्करिविरचिता ) १ ४ (२१-२२) २३ ३३ ४७ ४९ ५६ ७५ श्रीकौण्डिन्यशिक्षा ११३ क्रमपटलम् (उवटभाष्यसमेतम् ) १२४ स्वरपटलम् ( उवटभाष्यसमेतम् ) १३४ जयन्तस्वामिकृतः स्वराङ्कुशः (नीलकण्ठकृतटीकायुतः ) १४३ Errata १६२ Abbreviations १६८ Won 1 ________________ INTRODUCTION It is with mixed feelings that I am placing before the world of scholars, interested in Vedic studies, this work, the Vedavikṛtilakṣaṇa- samgraha, originally conceived, planned, and commenced by the late Prof. K. V. Abhyankar, who had not only prepared a rough draft of the whole, but had even seen forty-eight pages of it through the press, when his life was mercilessly cut off. It was with a sense of duty to the sage-like Professor that I accepted Dr. R. N. Dandekar's suggestion to carry on the work, little dreaming at the moment of the many diffi- culties it necessarily involved. I have tried to do as much justice to the work and to the memory of the late Professor as I could with my limited capacities; and I sincerely hope that my labour has not altoge- ther failed in achieving its goal. The Vedavikṛtilaksanasamgraha is, as the name suggests, a collection of (twelve) treatises, big and small and some of them with commentaries, dealing with the various modes of Vedic recitation (known as vikytis) and allied topics. (1) The Vikṛtivalli (ViV.) is a tract of twenty-eight kärikäs attributed to Vyaḍi. After the benedictory and introductory verses (1-4), the author gives the names of the eight vikṛtis and explains in some details the mode of forming the jata (5-20). The remaining vikytis, of which Mala alone has two varieties, have been described in the kärikäs that follow (21-28). Vyadi is an ancient authority in the field of Vyakarana, often referred to in the Prätisakhyas, the Mahabhagya, and many other works. He is known to have written the Samgraha, a voluminous work on Sanskrit grammar, and also a paribhasa work named the Paribhasasücana. But whether this Vyaḍi can be identified with the author of the Vikṛtivalli is not easy to decide. (2) The Vikṛtikaumudi (VK.) is a commentary on the ViV. by Gangadharabhaṭṭacarya who describes it as an ancient work (pura- 1 Vyadi has expressly stated two types of mala under the names pada-mālā and lorama-mālā ( see विव. २१-२२; विकौ. २१-२२ अष्टवि. ९-१० ). But परिशिष्टम् notes only mälä, namely krama-mālā. 2 Known so far only through references. 3 edited by Prof. K. V. Abhyankar in the Paribhasa-samgraha (BORI, Poona, 1967). ________________ II fyfrwng: tana grantha). This commentary has been edited by S. Sămăérami in Usa I (1889), and covers only the jaṭavikṛti. But from one of our MSS., the commentary appears to have covered the whole of the Vikṛti- valli (see note 9 on p. 16, contd. on p. 17), though, this point cannot be said to have been finally settled. The ten kärikäs (given as Parisistam on p. 21 f.) are identical with the corresponding kärikäs in the ViV. and the ViK2; and each one of them is introduced with identical remarks (see the introductory remarks on pp. 17-21). This, as also the identical illustration under ghana in both the places, possibly indicates that the Parisistam is only an abridged version of the previous work. (3) Astavikytilaksanam (AstViL.) contains seventeen kärikäs with an anonymous commentary describing and illustrating all the eight vikytis. This whole text with the commentary is included in the Benares edition of the Suklayajurveda-Prātikakhya with Uvata's commentary, with only minor variations (or alterations). Unfortunately, however, nothing is said even there about the author and the commentator. Another point to be noted about this work is that in the Prati- Sakhya-pradipa-siksa, the present work together with the commentary is incorporated almost verbatim with some omissions. Even most of the illustrations therein are the same, but are given only partially by adding the word ityadi in each case. The author of the Präti. Pra. Siksa has referred to the Jyotsna (presumably a commentary on the text adopted here) twice.' 1 See fato, Introductory st. 3. 2 But for the stanza describing the pada-mālā, no, 22 (in both fao and fato). 3 see pp. 21 and 22 under . 4 Benares Sanskrit Series, Benares, 1888, pp. 471-493 5 This is a comprehensive work, covering all the topics of the Sukla Yajurveda Prätisakhya, composed in 1817 by Balakṛṣṇa Sadasiva Goḍase, and included in the Siksasamgraha (Benares SK, Series, 1888). 6 Presumably a commentary on the text ( of the Viky tis) adopted here, Jyotsna is the name of the commentary on the Madhyandina YV. Prätisakhya, composed by Ramacandra, son of Siddhesvara, in Saka 1736. BORI. MS. No. 287 (Des- criptive Catal, Vol. I, Part I) of Sukla-Yajuḥ-Prätiśäkhya-pradipikä by Ramacandra Sadasiva Agnihotrin contains Astavikṛti lakṣana) on which he has commented Read अष्टौ विकृतयः प्रोक्ता रामेणात्राहिताग्झिना । प्रीयतां तन सर्वेशो वैद्यनाथ: सदाशिव: || But this does not contain the three varieties of ratha, 7 The two references are ( 1 ) ज्योत्स्नायां प्रकारत्रयेण रथ उक्तः स तत्रैव द्रष्टव्यः (ibid, p. 305); and (2)y (ibid. p. 306). ________________