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language (group of Kafiristan) and the word piśāca, suggested by Mr. Hoernce, 15 it is really but a hypothesis based on a verbal resemblance, but entirely devoid of any scientific demonstration.
I shall have done with all the explanations of the name Paiśācī when I have mentioned that of Crooke16. The Bhūtas or piśācas are recognized according to popular beliefs, by the fact that they speak through the nose that very peculiarity would then explain the name Paiśāci. Unfortunately for that ingenious hypothesis, the grammarians teach us nothing of the kind and the fragments in Paisāci which have come down to us do not present any special phenomenon of nasalization.
Reference : 1. E. Sanart, The Inscriptions of Piyadasi, R. Pischel, Grammatic der Prakrit
Sparchan (Gr. der I.A. Ph. 1, 8) the question of paisāci is summed up in para. 27, with the necessary bibliographical indications, they have only to be completed by those of G. Ar. Griasons The piśāca languages of NorthWestern India (London, R.A.S. 1906). The reader will se easily how much I am indebted to those works yet I must warn him that I am alone responsible for my deductions regarding Paiśācī.
In Pischel, 1.0. para. 3. Ex. Saurasena-apabharamsa . Kanthe Palambu kidu Radie. It would in Saurseni : Kanthe palambam kidam Radie. In Sanskrit Kanthe pralambam krtam Ratyah (Hem., Gram. D.P.S. Pischel) IV, 446 and cf. Pischel, G.D. P.S. para 5) Apabhramsas tu yao chuddham tattaddecesn bhāsitam (Vāgbhatālamkāra (ed. of the Kavyamala) II.3) Paiśāca, 1. C., para, 4. S. Levi, Th, Ind., pp. 206-207 Cf. Burnouf, Introduction, 446 Lotus, 357, Wassilief, Der Buddhismus, etc. (Trad, Benfey), I, 248, 295, Kern, Histoire du bouddhisme dans laInde,
II, 448-52. 8. Kern 1.0
S. Levi, Les elements de mormation du Divyāvadana, Toun Pso, VIII (1907), 405-22 Cf. also E. Huber, Souroe du Divyāvadana, Bulletin de 1 Ecole
francaise dExtreme-Orient, V. (1906) No. 1-2. 10. Les Insc. de Piyadasi, II, p 501, n. 11. A comparative grammar of the Gaudian Languages, Intr. XVIII-XX 12. The Pis, Lang. of North-West India. 13. S. Levi, Th. Ind. 330-5. 14. Piśāca - Omophagos, JEAS, 1996. 15. Cf. Grierson, The Pis Lang. p 2 and 189-90. 16. In Grierson, 1.0. 5. n. 17. Crooke, An Introduction to the Popular Behgion and Folklor of Northern
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| SR No. | 524618 |
| Book Title | Tulsi Prajna 2004 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya |
| Publisher | Jain Vishva Bharati |
| Publication Year | 2004 |
| Total Pages | 114 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India |
| File Size | 6 MB |