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Source: academia.edu: Tessitori Collection I

Uktika (उक्तिक) is the name of a work dealing with Lexicography.—The Uktika (in Gujarati/Sanskrit) is included in the collection of manuscripts at the ‘Vincenzo Joppi’ library, collected by Luigi Pio Tessitori during his visit to Rajasthan between 1914 and 1919.—The Uktika is between a grammar and a dictionary. The purpose is to give a form in Old Gujarati followed by one or more Sanskrit equivalents. It is useful in order to be able to switch between the two languages and has a pedagogical aim. The present work is anonymous. In its complete form, it includes a list of present forms (see section-colophon), then a list of past participles (the ms. has approximately two thirds of this section), then a list of kṛtyas, a list of pronominal forms, adverbs and conjunctions, non-grammatical words and numbers (all of them not available here). According to Velankar (p. 63), ‘the auktikas are a sort of prākṛta into Sanskrit dictionaries’. Here the language is not always classical prakrit, but rather a later stage at places very close to old gujarati.

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Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance’) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.

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Ends with (+15): Adhimuktika, Amauktika, Amuktika, Animauktika, Ayauktika, Ayuktika, Gajamauktika, Irvalushuktika, Irvarushuktika, Irvvarushuktika, Kshudrashuktika, Lohamuktika, Lohitamuktika, Mauktika, Muktika, Nairuktika, Niryuktika, Niryyuktika, Paunaruktika, Prayuktika.

Full-text: Paunaruktika, Nairukta.

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