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Birwé concludes that Hemacandra must have copied Dandanātha's commentary. With this he leaves a scope of further research – a systematic search for parallel passages in the works of Hemacandra and Dandanātha. According to Dr. Birwé, the year 1100 A. D. is the upper limit of Dandanātha's date (p. 161).
8. Articles of Dr. N. M. Kansara (1989, 1990)
The article entitled 'The Vaidika Vyākarana of Bhojadeva' by Dr. Kansara was published in the Journal of the Oriental Institute, Baroda, Vol, 38, Nos. 3-4, 1989, pp. 309-313. In this paper he has given an outline of the contents of ch. VIII of Bhoja's grammar based on the Madras edition. At the end he mentions the possible scope of research work regarding search for the correct readings of the sūtras of this chapter with the help of the parallel sūtras in Panini.
. A second article entitled 'Emendations Essential to the Vedic Grammar of Bhojadeva' by the same author was presented to the AIOC, 35th Session, Hardwar, 1990, pp. 43-53. In most of the sūtras discussed by him, he has modified the Bhoja sūtras by adding many words for the sake of anuvitti. In his Gujarati edition of SKĀ, he has emended many more sūtras by adding certain words to them. In my opinion such additions, except in very few cases, are unwarranted. Consider, for example, the Bhoja sūtras lyaph ktvā vā (VIII. 2. 67) and pluta udāttah (VIII. 4. 225). In the Gujarati edition they are changed to samāse'nañpūrve lyapah ktvā vā (VIII. 2. 68) and vākyasya teh pluta udāttah (VIII. 4. 228). The sūtra lyapah ktvā vā simply means that in case of Vedic literature the suffix ktvā is optionally applicable to the case where the suffix lyap has been prescribed in the laukika section. Here the context does not demand where the suffix lyap is used. This provision has already been made in the laukika part under the sūtra bhāvini gatyupapadasamāse ktvo lyap (VI. 4. 6). The.Bhoja sūtra VIII. 4. 225 makes provision for udāttatva to pluta. This sūtra does not require any statement regarding which ac is pluta. This part is already covered under the sūtra vākyasya teh plutaḥ (VII.3.131). Thus modifying the Bhoja sūtra pluta udāttah to vākyasya teh pluta udāttah is not only unnecessary but also wrong.
9. Ph.D. Thesis on SKĀ by K. Neelakantham (1989)
A Ph.D. thesis entitled 'A Comparative Study of Pāṇini's Aștādhyāyī and Bhoja's Sarasvatikanthābharanam' by K. Neelakantham was submitted to Osmania University, Hyderabad, in 1989. For the comparative study, the order of Astādhyāyī has been followed except in samjña and paribhāsā sūtras. This thesis of 6+718+iv pages gives all the novelties in SKĀ with exact number of
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