Prakritadhyaya

Author(s): Kramdishwar, Satyaranjan Banerjee, Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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Linguae Pracriticae, Bonnae Ad Rhenum, 1837. Lassen has not given a complete text of Kramadisvara's Prakrit grammar, but some important portions of the text (with the exclusion of Maharaṣṭrī dialect) have been dealt with. The text as given by Lassen is as follows:
A. Text of Magadhi-p. 393.
B.
Paisaci-pp. 440-41.
C.
D.
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INTRODUCTION
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Apabbramsa-pp. 449-53. Sauraseni-pp. 50-51 (Appendix).
Lassen's stress was mainly on the fifth chapter of Kramadiśvara's Prakrit grammar, i. e., the chapter which deals with the Apabhramsa, SauraMagadhi, Paisacī and other sub-dialects. Lassen has also discussed analytically the main peculiarities of these dialects which are based on Vararuci1 and Kramadisvara. In pp. 30-49 of the Appendix (Excursus V Ad Librum II) he has given, in a nutshell, some abstracts of the first and second chapters (i. e., vowels and consonants) of the text of Kramadīs vara's Prakrit grammar with constant reference to the sutras of Vararuci. In instituting this comparison Lassen has quoted only a few important extracts (sometimes only one or two words) from the manuscript consulted and collated by him, in order to show the variations from Vararuci. In several other places," a few eutras or lines from the manuscript have also been quoted, and I have consulted them in their respective places.
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§ 11. Lassen himself notes that the Prakrit portion of Kramadīs vara's grammar has been taken from a manuscript in Paris. He also informs us that the name of the commentary (vṛtti) of this manuscript is Pra ṛta-dipika by Candide vasarma. The beginning of the manuscript of Prakṛta-dipikā by Candidevasarma, as quoted by Lessen, is as follows:
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प्रणम्य गुरुमानन्दं सान्द्रकारुण्यवारिधिम् । श्रीकृष्णाख्यं परमातमनं
तदीयप्रीतिहेतवे ॥
1) The text of Vararuci has also been partly edited by him. 2) Vide pp.. 18, 354, 356, 357, 367, 369 and p. 52
(Appendix). 8) P. 16. 4) Dolci
parātmānam.