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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
1613
P. 252. Antiquity of the Kannada language-According to the Jain tradition'Brahmi, the daughter of Risabhadeva, the first Tirthankara, invented eighteen alphabets including, among others, Kannada. An inscription of about the 9th century found in a Jain temple in the Deogarh fort contains specimens of different alphabets mostly Dravidian. Amrita-sāgara, a Jain Tamil poet who flourished before the 11th cent. states in his rapparungalakkarigai, a work of prosody, that there existed in the Kannada language a work on prosody.
2084
P.V. RAMANUJASWAMI -Hemachandra and Paisācipraksta (I.A. Li. 1922, Pp. 51-54).
No grammarians who follow Hemachandra treat of more than two Paiśācikas He treats of seven dialects.
Trivikrama and Srutasāgara are two Jain Präkrit grammarians who closely follow Hemachandra.
2085
H. Narayana Rao-Etymological Research in Kanurese and Maruthi. (J.B.B.R.A.S. xxv, 1923, Pp. 491-497).
Pp. 492-3. Reference to Hemachandra's Desinamamala.
2086
George A. GRIERSON-Paisachi and Chūlikāpaisāchika, (1.A. Lii. 1923, Pp. 161-7).
Jain religion eulogised. Hemachandra and his Prākrit Grammar.
2087
Walter Eugene CLARK-Magadhi and Ardhamägadhi. (J.A.O.S. vol. 44, 1924, Pp. 81-121).
It is a comparative analysis of these two dialects-references from Hemacandra's Prākrit grammar also---what is Ardhamāgadhi ?-What characters speak Māgadhi and Ardhamāgadhi ?
2088
George A. GRIERSON--The Eastern School of Präkrit Grammarians and Paisāci Prakrut (Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee Silver Jublee Volumes. (Vol. III, Part II, Orientals, Calcutta, 1925, Pp. 119-141).
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