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 । as"authorities on Prākrit studies. Thus we see a clear influence, nay, the domination of Sanskrit on Prākrit. ___10. Namisadhu, a Jaina scholar ( 11th century ), commenting on a Sloka of Rudrata's Kāvyālamkāra (1. 12 ) gives a quite different opinion about the etymology of Prakrit:
“प्राकृतेति सकलजगज्जन्तूनां व्याकरणादिभिरनाहितसंस्कारः सहजो वचनव्यापारः प्रकृतिः, तत्र भवं सैव वा प्राकृतम्" । आरिसवयणे सिद्धं देवाणं अद्धमागही वाणी" इत्यादिवचनाद् वा प्राक् पूर्व कृतं प्राकृतं बालमहिलादिसुबोधं सकलभाषानिबन्धनभूतं वचनमुच्यते मेघनिर्मुक्तजलमिवैकरूपम्। तदेव च देशविशेषात् संस्कारकरणाच समासादितविशेष सत् संस्कृतायुत्तरविभेदानाप्नोति । अत एव शास्त्रकृता प्राकृतमादौ निर्दिष्टं तदनु संस्कृतादीनि ॥ पाणिन्यादिव्याकरणोदितशब्दलक्षणेन
संस्करणात् संस्कृतम् उच्यते"। “ To explain Prāksta - Praksti is a natural use of speech made by all beings of the world which is not refined by grammar, rhetoric etc; and a speech derived from Prakrti or Praksti itself is Prāksta. Or from the saying, “the Ardhamāgadhi speech of the gods is composed in the Prākşta of the Rşis,” Prāksta means first produced ( Prāk-ksta ) it is the speech easily intelligible to children and women and the source of all other speeches. It is of a homogeneous character like rain falling from the clouds; the same speech being distributed in various countries and being specialised by refinement is later differentiated into Saņsksta and other speeches. For this reason, the author of the text first mentions Prākrta and then Samskệta and other speeches. It is called Samskrta on account of being refined by Paņini and others, in the rules of their grammar "].
1 Bee DN, p. XIV ed. by M. Banergie, published by University of Calcutta, 1931.