Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics Part 02

Author(s): V M Kulkarni
Publisher: B L Institute of Indology

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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics
Ghatage has corrected some Prakrit verses in the footnotes to his article on Māhārāstri Language and Literature. Dr. A.N. Upadhye has corrected one very obscure Apabhraíša verse from Dhanika's Avaloka on Dasarūpaka which correction is incorporated by T. Venkatacharya? in his paper entitled 'An Appraisal of the Hindi Dasarūpaka' in Journal, University of Gauhati XI: Arts.
Dr. H. C. Bhayani has presented a philological discussion of the Prakrit illustrations cited in Anandavardhana's Dhvanyaloka in his two papers in Gujarati) published in VIDYA, Journal of Gujarat University, Vol. XIII: No.2, August 1970, (pp 9-17) and Vol.XIV:No.1, January 1971, (pp.1-10). He has contributed three papers, devoted to restoration of the Apabhraṁsa passages from Bhoja's Srīgāraprakāśa :
(i) “The Apabhraṁsa Passages From Bhoja's Śrīgāraprakāśa. I-VIII. "The Journal of Oriental Institute Vol.XXV, March-June 1976, Nos. 3-4..
(ii) “Apabhraṁsa Passages From Bhoja's Singāraprakāśa" (IX-XIV), VDYA: Languages Vol. XVII (1) (pp.1-12), January 1976, and
(iii) “The Apabhraṁsa Passages From Bhoja's Śrīgāraprakāśa XV-XXXVI, Bulletin of The Chunilal Gandhi Vidyabhavan, No.20, August 1976 (pp 1-13). He has also contributed, a paper to (MM Dr. P.V. Kane Birth Centenary Volume) Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay, Volumes 52-53/1977-78 (New Series): "Restoration of the text of some Corrupt Apabhramsa and Prakrit citations in Dhanika's Avaloka on the Dasarūpaka and in Kuntaka's Vakroktijīvita" ((pp. 49-54). I contributed a number of papers to various Journals with a view to restoring or reconstructing the Prakrit text of a very large number of verses. As the present volume covers all these papers, with corrections of misprints and emendations wherever necessary, I do not list them here. Of the Alamkāra works covered in the present volume Bhoja's Srigāraprakāśa (Coronation Press, Mysore edn in four volumes) and The Sāhitya Mīmāṁsā (Trivandrum Sanskrit Series No. CXIV, 1934)
2) Vide also his edition of the Daśarūpaka with the commetary Avaloka by Dhanika and the sub-commentary Laghutīkā by Bhatta NȚsimha, Introduction: pp xlx-lix, text: pp. 296-299. Note: Pp. 296-297, and Dr Bhayani's paper in MM Dr. P. V. Kane Birth Centenary Volume mentioned infra.