Prakritadhyaya

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

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KRAMADĪSVARA
in which all the rules of grammar are succintly described. Some? scholars are of the opinion that it is an epitome or an abridgement of some larger grammar; and as it is seen that this is a hand-book in which the nioeties of Pāņiai's grammar have been dispensed with for the comprehension of the beginners, it could be the abridgement of no other grammar than Pāņini's. But it should be borne in mind at the same time that although it is called "Samkşiptasāra", its bulk is second in magnitude to that of Pāņini's Aştādhyāyī.* Rāmacandra's Prakriyākaumudi and Bhattoji's Sidhanta-kaumudi cannot be classed with it, as their grammars are based on Pāņini's Aştādhyāyā, recast and re-arranged. Kramadīśvara adopts altogether a different method of collocation and arrangement for his grammar and he does not even follow the arrangement of Făņini. The commentator Goyioandra has also given a different explanation for the title of Kramadīśvara's grammar. He says that the title may signify a treatise in which all
f essential grammatical elements have been collected for the proper understanding of the beginners. So the question of an abridgement from other grammars does not arise. While criticising Belvalkar who calls 'the title' 'a misnomer', H. P. Šāstrī* opines that the grammar has rightly been called "Samkşiptasāra", because Kramdīśvara, has utilised the materials of the entire grammatical literature even of the different schools, previous to him. In that Case he only reiterates the statement of Goyicandra.
(b) Special features of his grammar § 44. Kramadīśvara, like Pāṇini, has followed a system of his own; he divides his grammar into eight chapters (pādas”), the last chapter being on Prākrit grammar and on metres and rhetorics. The first seven pādas are devoted to Sanskrit grammar
1) S. K. Belvalkar : Sys. Skt. Gram., p. 108 f. 2) Pāṇini has 3983 sūtrag, while Kramadīśvara has 3857. It is to be noted that if we exclude the sutras relating to Vedic (say about 1000) the number would have been more. We cannot, therefore, say that it is an abridgement of Pāṇini. 3) feasy aa a fal spear afga: संगृहीतः सारो यत्र तत् संक्षिप्तसारम् । अन्यत्र प्रकीर्ण मसारं विद्यते । तदध्ययने मन्द धियां केवलATH7 41, O TEET afara---țākā of Goyīcandra under mangalācaranz
4) Des. Cat. Skt. Mss. (VI), p. lxxiv. 5) Does he refer to the Vaidic ‘aştā padīvāk' (eightfold speech) ?