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Source: archive.org: Anekanta Jaya Pataka of Haribhadra Suri

Vidhyāpita (विध्यापित) refers to “extinguished”, as occurring in the Anekāntajayapatākā-prakaraṇa, a Śvetāmbara Jain philosophical work written by Haribhadra Sūri.—[Cf. Vol. II, P. 106, l. 3]—‘Vidhyāpita’ means extinguished. How this form is arrived at is a matter where scholars differ. (i) In Siddhahemacandra (VIII, 2, 28) we have the Sūtra viz. “indhau jhā”. This is explained in the svopajña commentary—[...]. This suggests that vijjhā is derived from the Saṃskṛta root √indh with vi. Its causal will be vijjhāva. The Saṃskṛt equivalent of it is the basis in ‘vidhyāpita’. (ii) Some derive “vijjhāva = vijhava from vidhyāpay”, the Saṃskṛta root being √dhyai with the preposition vi. (iii) Some suggest that vijjhāva is derived from vidhmāpay, the Saṃskṛta root being √dhmā, with the preposition vi. (iv) Some believe that vidhyāpay is a Sanskritization of the Pāiya (Prakrit) vijjhāv; for, if we leave aside the Jaina Saṃskṛta literature, no form of vidhyāpay is be found.

In the Jaina literature, the oldest example where ‘vidhyāpita’ occurs, is Kalyāṇamandirastotra of Siddhasena Divākara. If this authorship can be proved to be wrong, the present instance occurring in Anekāntajayapatākā is the oldest.

Some of the Pāiya (Prakrit) forms are found as under—
vijjhāa—Nāyādhammakahā (I, I; p. 66 & I, 14; p. 190); Paumacariya (V, 182).
vijjhaviyavva—Paumacariya (LXXVIII, 37).
vijjhāi—Gādāsattasaī (v. 430).
vijjhāyā—Gaudavaha (v 154)
vijjhavia—Paumacariya (XX, 92) and Gāhāsattasai (v 333)
vijjhavijjai—Paumacariya (v 407)
vijjhavai—Gaudavaha (v 119)
vijjhavaṇa—Santhāraga (v 109)

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Vidhyāpita (विध्यापित) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Vijjhavia.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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