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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CRITICAL APPARATUS
on, a new edition of the eighth pada of Kramadīśvara s Prākrit Grammar was printed in Caloutta in 1886, but that was also a very bad and uncritical edition. Since then it has attracted the attention of many scholars ; and lastly, Grierson had laid down strong stress on the importance of this work and remarked that this Prākrit grammar of Kramadīśvara would be found useful for 'controlling or substantiating the statement of other writers'. He did not edit any portion of it, but utilised the 'dhatvādeśa' portion of his Prākrit grammar from Delius's Radices. That a critical edition of Kramadiśvara's Prakytādhyāya has long been a desideratum is expressed by all these scholars. The present work is an humble attempt for the first time to improve considerably upon the existing text of Kramadīśvara, with the help of the manuscripts collated by me. 2. Critical Apparatus and Text-Constitution
I. Critical Apparatus $ 3. This editio princeps of Kramadīśvara's Prakrit grammar called "Prākrtādhyāya" with the Vrtti is based on the following material the description of which is given below :
(i) Manuscripts A=This stands for the country-made paper manuscript written in Bengali character, belonging to the Asiutic Society, Calcutta, and noticed by H. P. Šāstri in his Descriptive Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Asiatic Society, Vol. VI (grammar), 1931. p. 180, item No. 4495, MS. No. G. 694. The description, given there, is as follows:
"Substance, country-made paper. 15 x 31 inches. Folia, 27. Lines 5, 6 on a page. Extent in Slokas, 436. Character, Bengali,
Appearance, tolerable. Complete". Out of these 27 folios, the Prākrit portion runs only upto the 22nd folio, the remaining folios being for the metres and rhetorios. On the first page of the folio (i.e.,la), some other things, which are not connected with the text, are written. The analysis of the Prākrit portion can briefly be stated thus :
1) Vide my printed material P infra ($ 14) for the analysis of the printed editions of Kramadīśvara's Prākrit grammar. 2) Grierson, Ibid, p. 79.