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declaration that there are numerous corruptions of one and the same word 18.
Annotations : 1. Siddha-haima-śabdānusāsanam, VIII. i. 1, auto-commentary : 'Prakrtih Samskrtam/
Tatrabhavam tata ägatam vā prākstam/ 2. Vaidya, P. L. – Prakrit Grammar of Hemacandra, 1958, Notes on 1.1, p. 205. 3. 'Sesam samskrta-vat siddham' / Siddha-haima-sabdānusāsanam VIII.iv.448. 4. Pānini's Astādhyāyī begins with the sūtra 'Atha sabdānuśāsanam' followed by the
fourteen Māheśvara-sūtras, beginning with 'Aiun', etc. 5. Patanjali's Mahābhāsya, Paspaśāhnika, in his discussion of the word 'sabda' of the sūtra
referred to in ft. nt. 3. 6. Kāśikā-vrtti of Vāmana-Jayāditya, Introductory remarks just after the first three verses :
'Kesām sabdānām ? Laukikānām vaidikānāṁ ca.' 7. Oak, P. N. – World Vedic Heritage, New Delhi, 1984, pp. 142-143. 8. Bhikshu Jagdish Kashyap - Pāli Mahā-vyākarana (Hindi), Vastu-kathā, p. thirteen. 9. Doshi, Bechardas Jivaraj - Gujarati Bhāsā-ni Utkrānti (Guj.), p. 51. 10. Laddu, Dr. S. D. - 'Prakritic Influences Revealed in the Works of Panini, Katyāyana
and Patañjali' in Proceedings of the Seminar on Prakrit Studies (PSPS), edited by Dr.
K. R. Chandra, L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad, p. 88. 11. Ibid. 12. T. Burrow - The Sanskrit Language, London, pp. 35-36. 13. Ibid., pp. 51-53.
14. Shastri, Dr. Devendrakumar - Prāksta Kathā Tathā Apabhramsa Ka Aitihāsika Vikasa,
PSPS, p. 73. 15. Pāia-sadda-mahannavo, upodghāta (of 1st Edn.), pp. 25-26. 16. Doshi, Bechardas J. - op. cit., pp. 51-68; Chandra, Dr. K. R. - Prakrta Bhāsãoṁ kā
Tulanātmaka Vyakarana, pp. 122-134. 17. Rgveda, VIII, 100, 11 ab : 'Devīm vācam ajanayanta devās tāṁ viśva-rūpah paśavo
vadanti/ 18. Patañjali's Mahābhāsya, Paspaśāhnika, Edt. and Tr. into Marathi by Vasudev Shastri
Abhyankar, Poona, p. 11 : Ekasyaiva sabdasya bahavah apabhraṁsāh/
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