Book Title: Sanskrit Prakrit Jain Vyakaran aur Kosh ki Parampara
Author(s): Chandanmalmuni, Nathmalmuni, Others
Publisher: Kalugani Janma Shatabdi Samaroha Samiti Chapar
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10. Patika’s Taxıla Copper Plate Inscrip
tion. 11. Mathura Stone Inscription 12 Kalawan Copper-Plate Inscription,
near Taxila. A D. 2nd Century 13. Vakanapati's Mathura Stone Inscrip
tion 14. Gautamīputra Sātakarni's Mother's
Nasik Cave Inscription A D. 3rd , 15. Nāgārjuni Konda Stūpa Inscription,
Guntur, Andhra, 16. Niya Documents from Chinese
Turkestan. AD 4th , 17 Sivaskapdavarman's Hirahadagallı
Copper-plate Inscription.
Then come the literary documents in Pāli and Ardhamāgadhi and the Digambara canonical texts in Saurasenī The dramas of Aśvaghosa fall within this stage The thrid stage of the second MIA (400 A D-600/700 A D) is represented by the literary Prakrits whose characteristic features have been described by the Prakrit grammarians, like Vararuci, Hemacandra, Purusottama, Kramadıśvara Rāmatarka vāgīsa, Mārkandeya and others These Literary Prakrits have got numerous dialects and sub-dialects of which the Mahārāstrī, Saurasenī, Māgadhi, Paisācī and Apabhramsa are important for their literary documents Apabhramsa in fait, belongs to the third stage of MIA (600 A.D-1000A D) which is ended with Avahattha (1000 A-D 1500 A D)
Leaving aside the Inscriptional Prakrits, I am concerned in this dissertation only with the dialects and sub-dialects of Prakrit which have been described by the Prakrit grammarians and rhetoricians,
The Prakrit grammarians are again divided into two Schools-an Eastern and a Western The names of the Prakrit grammarians belonging to these two schools are given below in a tabulated form.
