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प्राकृतसर्वस्वम् ।
Paiśācī according to Rāmaśarman
Paiśācika
Suddha ( pure )
.
Samkīrņa (mixed)
Kaikeya Saurasena Pāñcāla Māgadha
Gauda Vrācada Unnamed
Suddha
Aśuddha
(IV)
Bhāşāśuddha Padasuddha
(1) Ardhasuddha Catușpadasuddha (II)
(III) After this division Rt illustrates some of these types. As the above list of Paiśāci given by him will show, the first division, i.e., Suddha includes seven types of dialects, six of which, are common with those of eleven given by Mk. It is also interesting to note that the number of Paiśācī dialects as given by Mk coincides with that of Rt both being eleven and yet they have divided the same from two different angles. The second division of Paišāci as described by Rt deals with polyglot tours de force in which Paiśācī or some other Prākrit form of speech is mixed mostly with Sanskrit excepting the Bhāşāśuddba of course, which must be composed of one and only language.111 The
111. This Samkīrṇa type pertains to rhetoric and is on the line of Bhoja's SK, see II, 17. Yet it is difficult to understand why Rt includes Bhāşāguddha which is purely in one language under Samkirpa, i. e., mixed.
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