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mar treats of the same six dialects that are treated of in the text, though he does not designate his work by six dialects. On a reference to Dr. Aufrecht's Catalogus Catalogorum three other works designated after six dialects are found:-Shadbhâshâchandrikâ, a work bearing exactly the same name, ascribed to Bhâmakavi, Shadbhâshầmañjarî, and Shadbhâshâsubantâdars'a. Lakshmîdhara mentions a work, named Shadbhâshârûpamâlikâ by Durganâchârya* Prof. S. R. Bhâņạârkar’s Report of a Second Tour in search of Sanskrit Manuscripts mentions a work, entitled Shadbhâshâvichârat which is described as treating of Sanskrit and five dialects. Prakṣitachandrika of S'eshakrishna treats of five dialects, Prâkrita, S'aurasenî, Mâgadhî, Pais'âchika and Chûlikâpaisânchika. I The sixth dialect Apabhrams'a is noticed, however; but it is not treated because it varies according to the countries where it is spoken and is not found in dramatical works and through fear of prolixity. S
None of the above works, however, treat of the Prâchî, the Avanti, and the Bâhlikâ, which, according to Bharata, form three of the seven divisions of dialects, and of S'abarî, Âbhîrî, Châņņâlî, &c., which are mentioned by him as sub-dialects. I Bharata describes at length the kind of characters into whose mouths respective dialects and sub-dialects are to be placed in
* Vide p. 22 of the text. † Vide p. 36 of the Report.
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