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A CRITICAL STUDY
OF THE GRAMMAR and METRES of the SAMDESA RASAKA
By
H. C. BHAYANI, M. A.
INTRODUCTORY As one of the few texts of late, vernacular-coloured Apabhramśa, as a metrical work composed in a score of metres most of them of considerable interest from the view-point of the Middle Indian prosody, as a valuable specimen of the Apabhramśa tru-literature and as probably the only non-religious literary Apabhramsa work published so far, the HTT75 proves unique enough to make itself a focus of studious attention. In addition to this, the fact that it is from a Muslim author's pen is of no small interest. Hence, at the instruction of Acharya Shri Jinavijayaji, who has brought out for the first time this critical edition, I have dealt below with the grammatical and metrical aspects and the literary form of the inti+, as also lave supplied a stanzawise summary in Englisli to facilitate reference.
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