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 166 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [June, 1873. by water, have been covered with a coating of mortar or chunam, which is still adhering in some places. In the centre is a low wall, four or five feet high, of thick chunam, forming a se¬ micircular enclosure, jmd inside this is a small angle or step of chunam ; this is all that re¬ mains of the building or structure, whatever it was. The ground is covered with pieces of mortar so very thick and solid that it is evident the temple has been purposely de¬ stroyed by man. Close by is another low cavern, hollowed out by water apparently, but said to be an artificial subterranean passage cut through the range of hills to a hamlet on the other side; I satisfied myself, however, that it was natural and led only a few yards. The inhabitants have a legend attached to these caves, attribut¬ ing them to a former Baluch queen, who is said to have resided in them and dug the passage through the hills. ON A PRAKRIT GLOSSARY ENTITLED PAIYALACHHI. . BY G. BUHLER, Ph. D. In the January number of this journal (vol. II. p. 17) I announced the recovery of Hema- ohandra’s Desisabdasamgraha, the first work of its kind which ever had fallen into the hands of a European Sanskritist. By another stroke of good luck I am now enabled to give a notice of a second Prakrit Kosha which precedes Hemachandra’s work by two centuries. This is the Paiyalachhi namamala, i. e. Prakritalak- shmih, ‘ the wealth of the beauty of the Prakrit language.’ In the MS. bought, the title is spelt Payalachhi and Payayalachhi. But the fact that in the first verse (see below) payalachhi must contain eight matras, and the circumstance that Hem. Desi. 1.4 has the form paiya for prAkrita, prove the correctness of my emendation. The MS. contains about 240 granthas and is written of 6J folios 4 34 lines k 46—48 Ak- sharas. It is perhaps a hundred years old, and its characters are Jaina-Devanagari. The Paiyalachhi namamala is written in the Arya metre and constructed on a principle simi¬ lar to that of the Amarakosha. It gives strings of synonyms for substantives, adjectives, and adverbs, each string filling usually a verse or a half-verse. The principle on which the synonyms have been arranged is not very intelligible. The book is not divided into chapters or sec¬ tions, and no attempt at order is apparent. First have been placed the synonyms for Brah¬ ma (v. 1), Parvati (v. 2), sun (v. 3), moon (v. 4), fire (v. 5), love (v. 6), ooean (v. 7), elephant (v. 8), lotus (v. 9), bees (v. 10), vVoman (vs. 11 and 12). Then follow some ad¬ jectives and adverbs, vs. 13—16. Next come narindadhadie ludio mannakhedammi II dliAranayarle pa. riddiena magge thiyfle anavajjo knjakanatthavihinie gun- dari n&rna dkijjAe || kuino andhajanam kimvakolasattipayA. the words denoting ‘collection, heap,’ 17 and 18a, and in the second half of the eighteenth verse the author says: ‘Now we will declare the words occurring in the GAthAs’ (ittahe gAhatthe hi vannimo vathupajjae). After this fresh exordium, he begins his enumeration with the terms for salvation (19a), a person saved (19*), Vishnu (20a), Siva (20b), Kartikeya (21l), gods (21b), Indra (22a), Balarama (22b) Yama (23a ), Kuvera (23b ), Vayu(24a), Garuda, (24b), snake (25a), Daityas (25b), cloud (26a), air (26 >), water (27a), river (27b), earth, (28a), Rahu (28b), etc. The words given in the Paiyalachhi are not exclusively Desis, but include many Tadbhavas and Tatsamas. Many of the Desis given occur also in Hemachandra’s Samgraha. But some¬ times their forms slightly differ in the two works. I have not found any quotation from the Paiyalachhi in the Desisamgraha. The author of the Paiyalachhi has not given his name. But he states in the concluding,- unfortunately corrupt, verses* of his work, that he wrote in Vikrama 1029, or 972-3 A.D., at DharAnagara, under the protection of the king of Malava. In the ninth and tenth centuries under Munja and Bhoja, Dhara was a great centre of literary activity, and it is remarkable that Dharmasagara in his Theravali, as well as other Jaina authors, state that in that very samo year DhanapAla wrote in the same place a Desinamamala. I should have been inclined to identify the latter work with the Paiyalachhi, were it not that Hemachandra quotes Dhana- pala several times and that his quotations aro nam antimft vannft nftsarami jaesa kamaso tenesA viram deal || kavvesu yo ye aaddA bahusukalhira vaijkanti te ittkaft- mae raiA ramantu hiae tahiyay&nam iti payayalachhi nAi mamAlA samAptA 11.
 * Vikkftmak&lapsa gae aunatti nut taro sahassammi l mAlava