Prakrit Vyakaranam

SR No.: 010651
Original Sutra Author: Hemchandracharya
Author: Parshuram Sharma
Publisher: Motilal Laghaji
Total Pages: 343
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 24 MB

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PREFACE
This new edition of Hemacandra's Prakrit Grammar is designed to meet the requirements of University Students. in Prakrit languages and was undertaken by me at the suggestion and support of Shet Motilal Ladhaji of Poona. There have been two excellent editions of this Grammar, one by Dr. R. Pischel in two volumes with the text, a word-index and notes in German ( Halle, Germany, 1877 & 1880 ), and the other by S. P. Pandit as an appendix to his edition of the artioaia in the Bombay Sanskrit Series ( Bombay 1900). The first of these is in Roman letters with notes in German, and as such, cannot be used by an. average student; the second has no helps by way of notes; and both of them are long out of print. I therefore thought of bringing out a new edition of the Grammar in the interest of students in Indian universities who are now taking more and more to the study of Prakrit languages in their relation to modern Indian vernaculars, and Shet Motilal Ladhaji readily undertook to publish it.
Eminent philogists like Sir George Grierson have divided Prakrit grammarians into two schools called Western and Eastern. The Western School is represented by aTehtlaan his sutras having been commented upon by त्रिविक्रम लक्ष्मीधर and PETS. Hemacandra belongs to this school and in his Siddhahema candra VIII gives exhaustive treatment of the Prakrit dialects. The Eastern School is headed by Vararuci whose sutras have been commented upon by tak. Other representatives of this School are Theater, the author of प्राकृतकल्पतरु; and - मार्कण्डेयकवीन्द्र, the author of प्राकृतसर्वस्व. There seems to be another old work of the School called प्राकृतकामधेनु of लकेश्वर which is mentioned by रामशर्मतर्कवागीश . as his source.