On the Sanskrit Sūktiratnahāra, as Subhāsita-Saṃgraha of Prākrit Subhāsita-s

(1) The late lamented AN Upadhye complained always that there does not exist a complete subhasita-saṁgraha of Prākilt verses and that it is di- fficult, if not impossible, to identify Prakrit aphorisma. (2) There are about five hundred Sanskrit anthologies(subhasita-samgraha-s) and collections of stray didactic verses' and only a few Prakrit anthologies of which the

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स्टर्नबाख दिखाते हैं कि सूर्यकलिंगराज का चौदहवीं शताब्दी का संस्कृत सूक्तिरत्नहार प्राकृत सुभाषितों को भी सुरक्षित रखता है। उसमें वे दो संग्रह पहचानते हैं, उनके पद्य हाल की सत्तसई, गाथासप्तशती तथा गाथाकोश से मिलाते हैं, और प्रत्येक निर्देश का मिलान परिशिष्ट में देते हैं — यही काम उपाध्ये सदा चाहते थे। Sternbach shows that Suryakalingaraja's fourteenth-century Sanskrit anthology Suktiratnahara also preserves Prakrit subhasitas. He separates two distinct sets, traces their verses to Hala's Sattasai, the Gathasaptasati and the Gathakosa, and appends an annexe collating every ascription, work that Upadhye had repeatedly called for.

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