Prakritsarvaswam

SR No.: 001369
Original Sutra Author: Markandey
Author: Krushnachandra Acharya
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1968
Total Pages: 424
Language: Prakrit, Sanskrut, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Grammar
File Size: 20 MB

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प्राकृतसर्वस्वम् ।
P- This stands for the text edited by BHATTANATHASVAMI and printed in Vizagapatam in 1912.
O- This stands for the Ms. written in Oriya character which was lent to GRIERSON by Pandit SADASIVA MISRA of Puri.
Hn- This stands for the copy in Devanagari character of the Ms. No. 1555 in the Library of Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta.
Hb-- This stands for the copy in Bengali characters of the same Ms. of the Asiatic Society Library.
Ox- This stands for the Wilson Ms. No. 158b of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
1o— This stands for Mackenzie Ms. No. 70 of India Office Library, London.
The Mss. of PS used by me for the present edition are as follows:
A- This stands for the Ms. No. 4090 in the Catalogue No. 4628 of the Asiatic Society Library, Calcutta. This is a palm-leaf Ms. and its leaves are marked on the left-hand side from 100 to 120. Evidently these form only a part of a large Ms. which probably contained Sūtras relating to other Prakrit languages. Only the Mahārāştri portion, i. e., the first eight chapters of Mk's grammar are written in this small fragment, other portions being evidently lost. It is written in beautiful Oriya script and according to Dr. S. K. De, the editor of Descriptive Catalogue of Mss. of Asiatic Society Library, Bengal, this Ms. belongs to early eighteenth century. It is strange to note that the Ms. No. 1555, two copies of which were consulted by GRIERSON referred to above is no more traced in the Asiatic Society Library A Ms. other than PS appears against the said number. The Librarian of this Library failed to satisfy me in explaining this irregularity and the disappearance of the Ms. referred to by GRIERSON. We are yet to know whether this is the same Ms. as that two copies of which were lent to GRIERSON by HOERNLE. The present Ms., however, as referred to above, records only the Mahārāștri