Prolegomena to Prakritica et Jainica

Author(s): Satyaranjan Banerjee
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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second of four systematical collections28 has pointed out, (1) the influence of Prakrit and an early stage of New Indian (Gujarati and Marathi) already mentioned, (2) in some cases hyper-sanskritization of words apparently Prakritic, (3) borrowings from dictionaries and grammars, (4) use of words of unknown origin. Apart from Amitagati's Dharmaparīkşā (ed. Mironow) this judgment was based upon Svetāmbara works. A description of the origin and progress of linguistic studies in the Prakrits (Ardhamāgadhi, Jaina-Māhārāştrī, Jaina Saurasenī) and Apabhramsas in Jain literature is beyond the scope of this book.
When stopping further publication of the "ĀvaśyakaErzählungen" Leumann had consoled the reader with his "Übersicht uber die Āvasyaka-Literature" to come out "in the very next time.” Materials from manuscripts and manuscripts only, a long list of which Leumann has given in ZDMG 45 and 46, had been collected for the purpose of laying bare the different layers of an extensive scholastic literature concerning certain indispensable (äva syaka) formulae of daily devotion. By this great work he was many decades ahead of his time. But, unfortunately, in this case too, printing was stopped when the 14th form (in folio) had been composed. Not until 34 years later this fragment, rich in contents, but difficult to study, was published by the Author who was fortunate enough to find the proofs being preserved29.
7. All history of literature, a building, as it were, has for its ground floor the bio-bibliographical materials. Jain 28. Life and stories of the Jain Saviour Pārsvanātha (Baltimore
1919); p. 220; Some Aspects of Jaina Sanskrit (Antidöron, Festschrift Wackernagel 1923, pp. 220ff.; The Salibhadra Carita (JAOS 1923, pp. 290-316); On Diminutive Pronouns
in Jaina Sanskrit (Festschrift Lanman 1929, pp. 7ff.). 29. Leumann, Übersicht über die Āvasyaka-Literatur, aus dem
Nachlass hrsg. v. Walther Schubring, Hamburg 1934. Obituary by the same, ZDMG 87, pp. 69-75.