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प्राकृतसर्वस्वम् । the first to regard säkki as a Vibhāṣā against the view of Hariscandra ?
3. Vararuci, Mārkandeya and Rānaśarman
74. We have discussed at some length Mk's indebtedness to Bharata and Kohala in the previous chapter. Both these authors are known to be great rhetoricians and if Mk consulted their work, it was definitely their treatises on rhetorics which furnished materials to Mk regarding the various types of Pkt and their usage in stage play. In fact Mk's citations from these authors prove-this. It is needless to repeat that his quotations from Bh. raise a question as to whether the former is quoting from the famous treatise NS, and if so, an altogether different recension of the said work was known to our grammarian.
Then coming to Vararuci we see that Mk is largely indebted to him. Out of the 487 Sūtras of Vr according to Bhāmaha-Cowell edition Mk has utilised almost 418 Sūtras word for word in his grammar. According to Bhattauāthasvāmin's edition of PS it consists of 1059 Sūtras including the four Sūtras of Nagara Apabhramsa chapter which are supposed to be inissing as well as the nine introductory Sūtras which deal with the classification of various Prākrit dialects. An estimate of additional Sūtras in corresponding chapters of Vr and Mk is given below :
Mk. I:1, 5, 10, 22, 27, 29, 50.
I:nil II : 4, 8, 26, 34, 42, 43.
IT : 47 III:6, 9, 10, 14, 23, 25, 26, 32, II1:19, 37, 56.
34-36, 38, 39, 44, 45, 49,
Vr.
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