Prakritadhyaya

SR No.: 001368
Original Sutra Author: Kramdishwar
Author: Satyaranjan Banerjee, Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1980
Total Pages: 140
Language: Sanskrit, Prakrut, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Grammar
File Size: 6 MB

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INTRODUCTION
1. Earlier Studies on Kramadis'vara's
Prakrit grammar
$1. Christian Lassen was the first scholar, so far known to us, who had utilised from a manuscript in Paris the Prākrit grammar in the Sanksiptasära of Kramadīśvara in his Institutiones Linguae Pracriticast published in the year 1837. Two years later, Nicolas Dalius had also utilised the same manuscript and appended the 'dhatvādeśa' portion of Kramadiśvara's Prākrit grammar to his Radices Pracriticae, Bonnae Ad Rhenum in 1639, which is regarded as a supplement to Lisson's Institutiones. Though Kramadīśvara's granmar was utilisei by these two scholars as early as 1837.39, yet they did not seem to have attached much value to his work. It was Cowell who had practically for the first time announced the proper worth of Kramadīsvara's Prakrit grammar which is of great value in correcting Vararuci's text'. * Cowell said that many difficult and obscure passages of Vararuci's Präkrta-prakāśa could be made clear, if Kramadiśvara were properly consulted. Cowell really understood the value of Kramadīśvara, a fact which has strongly been emphasized by Grierson many years later.
§ 2. It was also reported by Cowell that & text of the Prākrit Grammar of Kramadīśvara was in the process of editing by Rajendralal Mitra, for the Bibliotheca Indica, of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, but 'fortunately for his reputation', says Grierson, it was never published. The date of its printing is not known, but, as Grierson? informs us it was probably somewhere about the year 1870 (?). He also says that it has just the value of not a very good manuscript. Later
1) P. 16. He has consulted the commentary of Candidevaśarma, vide my L infra ($10) for detailed analysis. 2) P. 10 (fn.1). 3) Cowell's edition of Prakrataprakāśa, 1868, p. XII. 4) "It is with no small pleasure that I have seen, among the publications of the Bengal Asistic Society, which are annouced as in progress an edition of the Prāksta portion (of Kramadiśvara), by Babu Rajendralal Mitra"-Jowell's Prakrtaprakāśa, p. XII. 5) The Prākṣta-Dhatu.ideśa etc, Calcutta, 1924, p. 79. 6) H. P. Šāstrī's Des. Cat. (VI), 1931, p. 1xv. 7) Ibid, p. 79.