Prakritadhyaya

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

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INTRODUCTION
But Kramadisvara did not do it; and the king, therefore, replaced the lost portions by the pandits of his assembly.
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36. In this way, the king recovered and corrected some portions of his grammar and circulated it in his kingdom by composing a vṛtti on it. Seeing such a deep and sincere interest of the king in the work, Goyicandra wrote lucidly, under the aegis of the king, an elaborate exegetical commentary on both of them. In this way the grammar had become famous and been circulated during his life time.
37. From the first story narrated above, it may be presumed that Kramadis vara did not live long enough to complete his grammar.. He had originally composed the sutras (but not completed them),. while Jumaranandi, one of his contemporaries, had revised his sutras. and also composed a vrtti, called "Rasavati", along with the lost. portions, in order to complete it. Goyicandra has elaborately written a commentary (tikā) on both of them. It is also understood from the story that Samksiptasara school had passed three stages of development to become a complete regular school. So, like Panini,. his grammar can also be called a "triad".
(ii) Parentage and Native place
§ 38. Unlike other later Sanskrit writers, who are often confident self-puffers, Kramadiś vara leaves but a scanty record with regard to himself and his date. So we know very litte of his parentage and native place.1 But only from the end of the eighth pada of his grammar we come to know that he was devoted to learning as a hermit, a supreme logician, a very learned Brahmin, a poet and an inhabitant of Purva-grāma; he was the son of one Cakrapāņi and the grand-son of one Śrīpati; and he was a successful man.
$ 89. Now, to identify Kramadisvara with the physician Cakrapāņi (datta) of Lodhravali family, the commentator of the Caraka-samhitā
1) It is not true to say that 'nothing is known of Kramadiśvara's parentage. and nativity' vide S. K. Belvalkar, Systems of Sanskrit Grammar, Poona, 1915, p. 108..
2) faaraq)suf aratez: qågint fen: sfa: 1
x11fagdt sa1913ą aarat siqà: Kat 11 P. 524 of Samkṣiptasära vyakarana ed. by Gurunatha Vidyanidhi, Calcutta, 1924.