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Mahāvīra and His Relevence
It appears that there is no uniformity among the grammarians when dealing with Prākrit languages as they seem to have laid down rules on the basis of literary languages prevalent at that time. However, on the strength of whatever material is available, it is for the scholars to probe thoroughly into the relation between Prakrits and Hindi and thus encourage a comparative study of various modern an guages of India.
REFERENCES
* 1. See Comparative Grammar of Prakrit Langauges, P. 4. 2. The narrative can be compared with Padmavata of a Malik Muhammad
Jayasi and Gora Badal ki katha of Jatmal. 3. For a comparative study of Gahasattasai and Biharisatasai, see Introduction
to Gahasattasai, pp. 37-53 by Mathuranath Shastri; Jagadish Chandra Jain, Prakrit Sahitya ka Itihas, pp. 576, 578, appendix 2; J.C. Jain, Introduction
to Prakrit Pushkarini. 4. Before Sita was to be sent out of Ayodhya, because her chastity was in
doubt, it is stated in Upadesa pada of Haribhadrasuri that one of her cowives asked her to prepare a painting of Ravana. Since Sita had seen only Ravana's feet, she prepared a painting of his feet which was shown to Rama who was very annoyed with her. This incident: is also in folk song of Braj.
Jagdishchandra Jain ibid., p. 497. 5. See Jagdishchandra Jain ibid., pp. 228, 536, 469. 6. See Jagdishchandra Jain, ibid.. p. 113. 7. Thomas Roebak's An English Hindustani Naval Dictionary of Technical
Terms and Sea Phrases, written in 1811 can be useful for this purpose.
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