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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OBITIOAL APPARATUS
be taken. The collators of manuscripts best know how the original readings of ancient classics do undergo change of complexion, sometimes beyond recognition, at the hands of grammarians, rhetoricians, prosodists, and lexicographers ; how blots and blemishes steal into the manuscripts through the negligence or ignorance of the scribes ; how the intrusive hand of the poetasters, deluded by a chimerical and insolent hope of improving upon the author, inflicts a wound here and there, mora serious than the more negligence or ignorance of the copyists ; how archaisms gradually give way to modern manners of expression at the hands of scholiagts long habituated to and well co versant with familiar forms and phraseologies of the modern classio87." Such is also the case with Kramadisvara's Prākrit grammar for which some sort of emendations have been suggested in order to arrive at the genuine reading of the text.
III. Constitution and presentation of the text $ 28. Of the seven manuscripts (A BOO, V 8 and 8,) on which this edition is based, is the only oldest dated manuscript which hears the date Saka 16(0)8 (+18=1686 A.D.). Then comes the manuscript 0, which is also dated as Saka 1771 (+78=1849 A. D.). Only these two are the dated manuscripts, while the rest (A, B, V S and Sı) are silent on this point. We can conjecture the date of L which, as Nitti-Dolci says, was copied probably in the 17th century, because of the fact that it was made known to Europe by Father Pons who sent a copy of it to the Royal Library in 1783 A.D. If her assumption is true, then it can be said that it was the oldest of the manuscripts consulted by me. But as the text of this manuscript has been partly given by Lassen, I have no other alternative than to depend upon O mainly. Again, there is a similarity between C and A, as well As between L and V; the manuscripts B and Care almost modern written within the range of hundred years. For convenience, O and A may be classed together, while L and V (though fragmentary) form the other class ; and B and C, may be kept seperately. S and S, form one group, but akin to B and C1. The printed editions are based on some other manuscripts which are akin to ABOO, 88,. They must, therefore, be classed according to the following diagram.
1) Quoted from my paper, vide PTALOO, 18th session, 1958, pp. 275-76.