Sanskrit Prakrit Jain Vyakaran aur Kosh ki Parampara

Author(s): Chandanmalmuni, Nathmalmuni, Others
Publisher: Kalugani Janma Shatabdi Samaroha Samiti Chapar

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३८ सस्कृत-प्राकृत व्याकरण और कोण की परम्परा
Followers (111) Simhadevagani
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Trivikrama
(1) Narasimha 5 Simbarāja 6 Laksmīdhara 7 Appayyadīksita 8 Bālasarasvati 9. Subhacandra 10 Śruta Săgara
Ref Commentary on Vāg bhatalankāra II. Prākrta-vyākarana Selection from him by Prākrta-(Sabda) Pradīpika Prākrta-rūpāvatāra Sadbhāsā-candrikā Prākrta-manidipa Sadbhāsā-Vivarana Sabda-Cintamani Audārya-Cintamani
These two schools differ quite a lot in their accounts of Prakrit dialects The Easterners describe a number of dialects and sub-dialects which, are altogether omitted from the consideration of the westerns As for example, Vararucı (following the edition of cowell) mentions only the Mahārāstrī, Paiśācī, Māgadhi, and Saurasenī dialects and to these Hemacandra adds Cūlikapaišācī and Apabhramsa Hemacandra also incidentally mentions Ārsa and Ardhamāgadhi Trivikrama, Simharāja, Lakşmīdhara, and Appayyadīksita follow the classification of Hemacandra, but they have excluded Ārşa or Ardhamāgadhi from their considerations of the eastern Prakrit grammarians Bharata is the first one, so far as it is known so us, who mentions several Prakrit dialects in his Nātyaśāstra He divides the Prakrit dialects mainly into bhāsā, and vibhāsā, and bhāṣā includes not only Māgadhi, Saurasení and Ardha māgadhi, but also Avantī, Prācyā, Bāhliki and Dāksinātya, and vibhāsā includes Sākārī, Ābbīrī, Cândāli, sābarī, Drāvidī, Audrs, and the languages of foresters But he has not given the characteristic features of these dialects Bharata describes various forms of Prakrit and its dialects and sub-dialects as employed in dramatic performance together with the fundamental classification of languages in the following manner