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Kumāra-svāuri is mentioned in an inscription ut Bagadi of about 1145 A, D,
Svüni-Kumāra attended the Sunahing runa of Simhanundi in A. d. 1008. The readiny Sväuni at the boyinning is a bit conjectural as the letters are not quite visible in that record discovered at Kopual."
Epigraphio references do not constitute a census of all the teachers und authors. So it is not safe to propose identification without sufficient common ground. Nowhere in these records there is any reference to the treatise an Anuprekeșiis associated with any one of the above. Obviously, therefore, the;e is no evidence to propose any one of the above names 19 identical with that of our author Kunīra. Mere partial, or even complete, similarly in name cannot be enough for identification, because the same name is borne by authors of different times and distant places. If that is enough according to Di, J. P. J AIN, then Syidi Kuwara (1. D. 1008) or Kamara Svāmi (c. 1145) will have to be chosen for identification, because that came is the nearest in similarity so far as the author of K-Apupreked is concerned.
b) IT PRAKRIT DIALECT
As early as 1900, R. PINQANL, in his monumental and epoch-inaking Prākrit grammar, the Grammatik der Präkrit-Sproochen, 21 (Encyclopædia of Indo-Aryan Research I. 8), noted the eglient and distinguishing characteristios of the Präkrit dialect of the Kattigeyānuppekkha, a few gathās from which were extracted by BEANDARKAR, along with that of allied texts like the Gurtivali and Parvajancsárc. In view of the phonological changes, t to d and th to dh and of the Nom. sing. of -stems in o, he designated the dialect as Jaina Sauruseni, with a note of caution that this name merely serves as a convenient term, even though it is by no means accurate. What PiSCHEL Warns is true, more or lt88, in the case of most of the the names of Präkrit dialects, if sorutinised in the perspective of Middle Indo-Aryan as a phase of linguistic ovulation."
1) Epigraphic Carnatica IV Nayamangala No. 100.
3) P. B, DELAR; Jainism in South Trulia com Som Joine Epigraph, Sholapur 1957. F, 940 f.
2) E. G. BIANDALKAB: Report on the search for Sanskrit Mb. in the Bombay Presidency daribg the year 1883-84, pp. 106 ., Bombay 1897.
4) S. Sun: Comparative Grammar of Middle IndoAryam, ulso Historual Syntax. of Middla Indo-Aryan, Linguistio Society of India, Calcutta 1951 and 1953. S. K. CHATTERJI and S: SxN: A Vildle Indo-Aryan Reader, Parts I-IL, Calcutta University, Culoutta 1957.
