Prakritadhyaya

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

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KRAMADISVARA
and contemporary of Nayapāla, is idle and futile? ; as the former was a Vaidya, while Kramadīśvara came from a Brabmin stock. Similarly we are not in a position to identify Kramadīśvara's grand-father with Śrīpati$ who supplemented the Kātantra Vyākarana of Sarvavarmā.
$ 40. As regards his native place we are confronted with some difficulties. Because, as the word "pūrvagrāma" generally means "& village in the east", the people of East Bengal think that he was a native of East Bengal, while others are of the opinion that since his grammar has & wide circulation in West Bengal, he must belong to that region,
(iii) Discussion on Pūrvagrāma $ 41. Pūrvagrāma is an old name of a particular village or locality; and to it belonged the 'pūrvagrāma-kulakalānidhi' Nārāyaņa Vidyāvinoda, son of Vāņośvara and grandson of Jaţādhara, who wrote & commentary on the Amarakoşa. From the same pūrvagrāma hailed the Saiva pontif Visvešvara Saivācārya.* who was highly eulogised as a very learned scholar in the Malkapuram stone pillar Inscription (1261-62 A. D.) and in whose connection we come to know definitely that Pūrvagrāma was in the province of Dakşiņa Rādha of the Gauda country. The village Pūrvagrāma is also celebrated in the Malkapuram stone pillar Insoription by the
1) Jāti-tattva-vāridhi (in Bengali), by Umesh Chandra Gupta, Calcutta, 1902 p. 237. 2) There is another Srīpati of the same name who wrote & small treatise called Prsodarādiurtti which was written in the Saka era 1297 (-1375 A. D.), vide Belvalkar, Ibid, p. 111. But no reference is found about his connection with Kramadīśvara. 3) A manuscript of which is found in the Government Oriental Library, Madras, vide, Triennial Catalogue, Part I, Sanskrit C, 1928, pp. 5894-95. R. No. 3645. cp. Eggeling's Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, Part II, p.221, No. 830, 4) Epigraphist's Report, Government of Madras, Home Department (Education) G. 0. 1035, p. 122. 5) Mention of Purvagrāma is found in the Malkapuram Stone Pillar Inscription which stands in front of the ruined temple of Visveśara, at Malkapuram, Guntintakur in the Guntin district, Madras, vide Epigraphist's Reports etc., pp. 122, 124, Malkapuram Stone Pillar Inscription of Rudradeva, JAHRS (IV), 1930, pp. 147-62; R. O. Majumdar, History of Bengal, Vol-I (Hindu period), Dacca, 1943, pp. 683, 685 (n). 6) EFT FTAFI धर्मनतयः श्रीगौड-राढोल्लसत्-पूर्वग्राम-शिखामणि-गणपतिमापाल-दोक्षागुरुः क्षिराध्वेरिव चन्द्रमाः 31f74a mateient quga: sfagagart - PETTATH-stan-47749-JAHRS(IV), p. 158.