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:origin of the words Prākrit and Pali ( Belvalkar Felicitation · Volume, Delhi, 1957 ). . He connects Prākrit with Skt. Prakyti, and derives Pālibhäşā from Palibhāstī. < Paribhaşi, by věddhiformation. In a paper in the same Volume Dr. Helmuth von "Glasenapp compares the tenets of Jainism and Buddhism, and 'comes to the conclusion that ancient Bhddhism was in its salient .fcatures more similar to that taught to-day in Ceylon, Burma, Siam, Laos and Kamboja 'than to that of the Mahāyāna Far Eastern countries. Dr. D. C. Sircar has published the Erragudi edicts of Asoka ( Epigraphia Indica, XXXII. 1, 1959). Dr. .L. A; Schwarzschild has written notes on some Middle IndoAryan words in -)1- (Journal of the American Oriental Society, LXXVII, 3. July-September, 1957) and has discussed in detail thc etymology and development of the meaning of the Prākrit word Thakka' tired'( Indian Linguistics, Turner Silver Jubilee ! Volume, 1958). Dr. T. B. J. Kuiper has contributed a thought-provoking paper on the Paisāci fragment of the Kuvalayamālā (Indo-Iranian Journal, T. I, 1957)," and it is cspecially noteworthy because we have very few specimens of Paisāci Prākrit. Mr. K. R. Norman has written on Samprasarana in Middle Indo-Aryan (Journal of thc Royal Asiatic Society, London, parts 1-2, 1958). Dr. V. S. Agrawala has produced in a notc further reference to the Präkrit word li puissa-mūnava, and has rightly interpreted the same in the sense lofa sooth-sayer who is conversant with the science of stars'
(Journal of the Oriental Institute, VII. 1-2, September-Dcccmber 1957 ) and Dr. S. N. Ghosal has discussed thc ctymology of thic word Sausariari occurring in the Präkrit Grammar of Heniacandra, I. 1 ( JOI, VII. 3, March 1958). Prof. Shiva Prasad Bliattacharyya has thoroughly discussed the word mallaka, occurring twice in tlie Präkrit portion of the Mșcchakațika, and! casting aside the current meanings he has tried to interpret it in the sense of a Ksatriya tribe ( JOI, VIII. 4. June 1959), .and, Nir. D. B. Diskalkar has given a systematic account of Sanskrit and Prākrit poets known from inscriptions ( JOI, VII.
