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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TULSI-PRAJNA, July-Sept., 1992
view to propagate the Sanskrit studies. In 1789, Kālidās's sākuntalā appeared along with its Prakrit portions. Scholars then came to be acquinted with its form. Simultaneously, the Prākrit inscriptions were also before them for study. In 1854, Cowell published the Prākrit Prakās ha of Vararuci which has no reference to Apabhramsa Then Pischel edited Hemachandra's Prākrit Vyākaraṇa and published it from Halland, in 1877. He did not know that there was any literature in Apabhraíša, as before 1901 no Apabhraíśa literature was published. Dr. Gune's 'An Introduction to Coinparative philolosy' and Dr. Benarji-Shastri's “Evolution of Māgadhi" attracted the scholars towards the studies in Apabhramsa. Pischel utilized the material available in the Vikramon vasiya and Alankār granthas and published his work "Materialen zur Kenntnis des Apabhraíba (Gottingen, 1902) and Ein Nachtrag zur Grammatik der Präkrit sprachen (Berlin, 1908). Dr. L. P. Tessistori's "Paper on Notes on the Grammar of the Old Rajasthani with special reference to Apabhramsa and Gujarati and Marwari", IA. 1914-16 and Dr. Grierson's book "Linguistic Survey of India (1913) may also be mentioned.
Dr. H. Jacobi was a Professor in the Bonn University of Germany. He studied Pischel's grammar and then edited the Uttarādhyayana. On the basis of peculiarities of its stories, he wrote a treatise "Ausgewahlte Erzahahlungen in Mahārāshțrı” (Leipzig, 1886). He also edited the Ācārānga, Kalpasūtra, Kālakāchārya kathānaka, Paumacariyam, and Samaraiccakahā (1913-14). He then came over to India and got a copy of "Bhavisyattakahā" of Dhanapāla in Ahmedabad which was published in Germany (Munchen) in 1918. Another work Sanatkumāracariu of Haribhadrasüri was received by him in Rajakot which was edited and published in 1921. He also published a paper on Apabhramsa (Gartigon, 1923) which was followed by Smith (London), Alsdorf and Dolchi (The Apabhraṁša Stavakas of Ramasharman, 1939). Alsdorf wrote a paper on A pabhramsa (M. Winternitz Memorial Volume, 1933) and issued a book "Apabhramsa Studian” (1937).
In 1914, Cimanalal Dahyabhai Dalal read a paper “Pātana na bhandāro ane khasa karine temam rahelum apabhramsa tathā prācina Gujarāti sāhitya" in the fifth Gujarātī Sāhitya Parisad. This paper encouraged further studies in India. The work on Bhavisyattakahā which could not be completed by Jacobi was taken up by Dalal but unfortunately he died in 1918 and the remaining work was handed over to Dr. Gune and Pandurang who completed it with an extensive introduction,