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Review
The concluding Ninth Chapter mainly attempts to throw light on the interrelation of Prakrit and Vedic Sanskrit (PP. 134).
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The portion printed in big type is intended for the elementary stude nts. The matter printed in small type is especially meant for the advanced students who may look for some explanation of the facts given from the modern pint of view of linguistics. Dr. Chandia has adopted a comparative (and historical) method in presenting the subject-matter. His long experience of teaching Prakrit, Pali and Apabhramsa to the university stu dets has enabled him to present the rather tough subject of grammar in a simple and lucid style. By writing this very good grammar he has laid under obligation the students of Prakrit, Pali and Apabhramsa languages. And he deserves our warm congratulations.
Incidentally, it may be noted that the book is disfigured by a very large number of misprints. The long list of corrections, added in the beginning, somewhat saves the situation. In a book dealing with a scientific subject we expect utmost precision. Let us, however, hope that maximum care is bestowed and accuracy attained when the second edition would be brought out.
-V. M. Kulkarni
STUDIES IN SANSKRIT SAHITYA SASTRA by Dr. V. M. Kulkarni, B. L. Institute of Indology. Patan. First Edition, 1983. pp. 200, price Rs. 60.
The present volume, the first publication of the Institute, is a colle. ction of 16 Papers plus a paper in the appendix, on research problems of Sanskrit poetics, with the exception of "Kalpalatäviveka on Bhamaha's Kavyalamkära" which appears here for the first time. All others are already. published in different Journals of repute: the earliest being a paper that appeared in 1954. The selection covers up a variety of problems of Sanskrit poetics and mostly these are problems that will strike to the minds. of very few scholars. This speaks for the deep, original vision as also height of scholarship and depth of research faculty of the author that is reflected in these papers. One interesting feature of the papers is their brevity, the longest being the famous- "Abhinavabhāratt-text Restored," in 24 pages. This shows that the author writes in as few meaningful words as possible, he is also always and invariably to the point and ever on firm basis. He is thoroughly deep as most of the papers show.
Sanskrit writers on Plagiarism" deals in brief with and gives a rather quick survey of the thinking of writers on plagiarism, the table of
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