Tulsi Prajna 1992 07

SR No.: 524571
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1992
Total Pages: 154
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 8 MB

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Vol. XVIII, No. 2
ticis" (Vratislaciae, 1874) etc. are the important works which assisted to the development of Prakrit studies.
Risikesa Shastri compiled a Prakrit Vyakarana in Sanskrit with English translation (Calcutta, 1883), P. F. Pavolini's Italienna verson of Le Novello Prakrit de Mandiya edi Aglaladaltta (Rome, 1872), R. Pischel's "Grammatik der Prakrit Sprachen" (Strassburg, 1900), Sir George Abraham Grierson's "Prakrit Dhatvādeśas" (ASB, Calcutta, 1924), Woolner's "Introduction to Prakrit" (Calcutta, 1928) are important editions on modern Prakrit grammars.
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Later on, the scholars started to study a particular Prakrit dialect and as a result, Weber's book on Maharashtri and Ardhamagadhi, Adverd Mullar's book on Ardhamāgadhi. H. Jacobi's book on Mahārāshtri, Cowell's book A short Introduction to the ordinary Prakrit of the Sanskrit Dramas with a list of common irregular Prakrit words (London, 1875) etc. are very important works in the field. Likewise, some other works dealing with particular Prakrit dialect are R. G. Bhandarakar's "The Prakrita and the Apabhraṁśa' (RAS, Bombay, Vol. XVII, p. 1-84, 1889), R. Schmidt's Elementarbuch der Sauraseni (Hannover, 1924), Becardas Dosi's Ardhamāgadhi Reader and Prakrit Margopadeśikā (Lahore, 1623), P.L. Vaidya's "A Manual of Ardhamagadhi Grammar" (Poona, 1934), A. M. Ghatage's "Introduction to Ardhamāgadhi" (Kolhapur, 1941), Dineshchand Sircar's "Grammar of the Prakrit Language" (Calcutta, 1943), M. A. Mchendale's Historical Grammar of Incriptional Prakrits, Poona, 1948). G. V. Tagare's Historical Grammar of Apabhramsa (Poona, 1943), G. V. Davane's Nominal Composition in Middle Indo-Aryan (Poona, 1959), and Comparative Syntex of Middle Indo-Aryan (Calcutta, 1953), Dr. Nemichandra Shastri's Abhinava Prakrita Vyakarana (Varanasi, 1963) and Madhusudan Misra's Prakrit Vyakaraṇa., Dr. Subhadra Jha's English translation of "Pischel's work Grammatik der Prakrit Sprachen" was published from Delhi in 1957 and its Hindi translation by Hemachandra Josi appeared from Patna in 1958 with a corrigenda extending over 55 pages. A number of Apabhramśa Vyakaranas have been also published during these years.
25. Studies in Apabhraṁśa literature and Language
Prakrit including Apabhraṁśa is closely related with the modern languages. Its vast literature is prescrved by the Jaina Bhaṇḍāras as Jainas regarded it as their duty to distribute copies of the religious works among the readers.
Sir William Zones founded the Asiatic Society in 1784 with a