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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
êva II
Tyâg-âdayô yasya gunah prasiddhâs-samkhyâm-atikramya sadâ pravṛittâḥ yaiḥ saj-janânâm hṛidayâ
vadhvâ$1 samâchakarsh-âtma-samîpa-dêsam II Sa tu śrîprithvivallabha
57 kê mahaniya
58 mi(ni)
mahârâjâdhiraja-paramêévara-paramabhaṭṭâraka-Sa
59 tyâérayakulatilaka-Chalukyabharaṇa-érîmat-Tribhuvanamalladêva-śrimad-Vallabhanarêm -dradevaḥ kusali sarvvân-êva ya
60 thâ-samva (ba)dhyamânakân-râshtrapati- vishayapati- grâmakûṭak- ayuktaka- niyuktak -âdhi
kârika-mahattar-âdîn-samâdi
61 saty-Astu vaḥ samviditam II Yath-âsmâbhih Saka-nṛipa-kâl-âtita-samvatsara-satêshu navasu tri(tri)msad-adhikêshu gatêshu 930
somagrahana-parvvani Kol
62 prava[r*]ttamâna-Saumya-samvatsare paurnnamasyâm
lapurê Kôtitirthê yajana-yajan-âdi-shat-ka
63 rma-niratarya vêda-vêdâmga-pâragaya Yajubáklyaya Pratham-Atreya-gleriya
Dêvanakramayitabhaṭṭa-pautraya
64 Dônêkramayitabhatta-putraya Dêvêvîsôttara-bhaṭṭâya Kumḍi-dês-Abhyamtarê Alatage
saptaśata-ma
[JANUARY, 1887.
65 dhyê Koddasi-nâma-grâmô dattal 11 Tasya ch-âghâṭaḥ 11(1) pûrvvataḥ (1) Duddhigramo nama grâmah (1) dakshinataḥ
nâma grâmaḥ 11(1)
66 Vattaram nama grâmaḥ (1) paśchimatah | Bhemḍevado uttarataḥ (1) Vamgi nama grâmah | Evam pû67 rvva-prasiddha-chaturâghâta-svakiya-simâ-sahitaḥ sa-vriksha-mâlâ-kulaḥ
sa-dhânya
hirany-âdêyah râjakiyâ[nâ*]m-an-amgu
68 li-prêkshaniyah nidhi-nidhâna-samêtaḥ ghatika-chchhatra-châmar-âdi-sahitaḥ |
śukla(lka)ḥ sarvvanamasya iti Sa
ON THE GRAMMAR OF SAKATAYANA. BY PROFESSOR F. KIELHORN, C.I.E.; GÖTTINGEN.
69 ch-âgâmibhir-asmad-vamsyair-anyais-cha rajabhiḥ paripâlaniyah I Uktam cha bhagavata vêda-vyâsêna Vyâsêna 11(1) Sva"-dattâm para
70 dattâm và yô harêta vasumdharam shashtim varva (rsha)-sahasrâni vishṭhâyâm jâyatê krimiḥ Va(ba)hubhir-vvasudhâ dattâ rajabhiḥ Sagar-â
71 dibhih yasya yasya yada bhumis-tasya tasya tadâ phalam Ramabhadrên-âpyuktam (1) Sâmânyo-yam dharmma-sêtur-nripânâm kâlê kâ72 lê pâlanîyô bhavadbhih sarvvân-êtân-bhâvinaḥ pârvi(rthi) vendrân-bhuyo bhayo yachatê Râmabhadraḥ | Ôm Śrî-râjâdhiraja. 73 râjachândâmanch
dattiḥ 1(11)
śrimad-Vikramaditya-śrimat-Tribhuvanamalladêvasya Ôm | Mamgalam mahati śrik II
Considering that the search for Sanskrit MSS. has been carried on now for many years, it is strange that no complete and trustworthy copies of the grammar of Sakatayana should as yet have become generally accessible. This is the more to be regretted, because that grammar, in my opinion, holds an important place in the later grammatical literature of India. For, not to mention that Sâkațâyana is referred to again and again in the Ganaratna-mahodadhi and elsewhere, it is to him, more than to any
1 Read baddhvå.
8 Metre, Sloka (Anushṭubh); and in the next verse. "Metre, Salini.
sa
body else, that Hemachandra has been in. debted in the composition of his own grammar. In fact, excepting the circumstance that Hêmachandra has adopted many of the technical terms of the Kátantra, his grammar (so far as I can judge at present) is hardly more than a revised and perhaps somewhat enlarged redaction of the grammar of Sakatayana. On the other hand, it appears to me that, among the works which are known still to exist, Sakatayana himself has used the grammar
5 Here again, and in the next line, as at the commencement of the inscription, this word is expressed by a symbol, not in writing.