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Smt. Neelanjana S. Shah
date of Kșira wämi (1050 A. D.), the author of Kşīratarangini, a commentary on the Dhalupātha. Kșiraswami quotes the opinions of others, but not even once has he quoted Dhanapala. Therefore, Dhanapala's date might have been somewhere between eleventh and thirteenth century,
It is proposed in this article to resurrect the opinions of Dhanapala on the strength of the citations from his work, quoted by later authors. The present collected and classified data on Dhanapala's views regarding some of the controversial points about a few Sanskrit roots might serve as a source material for further research on allied material and incidentally, it might help to reinstate Dhanapāla in his proper place in the history of Sanskrit Grammar. Further, it is also possible that our Dhanapala might turn out to be identical with the one referred to by Hemacandra in the introductory verse of his Brhad-Vrtti on his own Abhidhāna-cintamani.3
1.1. Krsna Lilasuka, the author of the Puruşakāra, quotes Dhadapāla forty-seven times citing his opinion either about the meaning or about anubandhas of as many as sixty-one roots.
Sāyanācārya, the author of the Mā. Dhā. Vr. quotes him thirty times in connection with the discussion of forty-five roots.
1.2. Dhanapāla has discussed various aspects of the following 'roots :Gana 1 --Ati-adi, am, i-i, ita-kita-kati, uth-ruth luţb, rj, kuth, ghuşir, cak,
din, takş, dr, dhvan, macun (or maci), mut, yabh-jabh, yam, lad, varh-valh (denoting 'pradbānya'), barh-balh (denoting' 'paribhāṣaṇa’
etc), vanu, śikṣ, suth, sam, śubh, huds-hudr-hodr; Gana 11— Pici (or prci), Gana-111-Vişlr, Gana-11-şah, șub, Gana-VI-lis', kūn, sadir, Gona-VII-Vrji, Gana-IX-dľ,
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Gaņa- krp, cal-sphut-ghat, chțdi (or cbrda), tanu, pat-etc, pis, bhū, yam,
vid, vaj, (and vraj), şņiba, (or sniha) and svad.4 1. 3. It may be noted that Dhanapāla agrees with śākațāyana in the case of following roots.
2. Shri S. K. Belvalkar, Systems of Sanskrit Grammar, P. 52. 3. Cf. Hemacandra's Abhidhāna-cintamani and the introductory Verse of his BỊhadvștti
thereof:- ocefagarza: 1 4. Säyana has not quoted Dhanapäla's views about following roots in his Mā. Dhā.
Vr;-am, ati-adi, taks, dhvan, yam (Gaņa I), vanu, šam, liś, vrji, dr. (Gana IX), tanu. paț...etc, pad, pis and yam (Gana X).
