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been made out of the Sanskrit words unlike the Desya words which have their independent origin.
Now we come to the exact meaning of the word sofa as admitted in the field of Sanskrit grammar. The following are the definitions of ten --
(१) अर्थावबोधहेतुप्रत्ययविधानावधिभूतशब्दत्वम् ।। (२) प्रत्ययनिष्ठविधेयतानिरूपितोद्देश्यताश्रयत्वमिति।
It we apply this definition, tofa: egunetan eta gaud will naturally mean that only for the purpose of derivation of Prakrit words, the Sanskrit words become the fa. It does not mean that Sanskrit as a language was prior to Prakrit, because in grammar the tafa comes first and the strate after words, but in the language the complete word forms the component of it. Grammar only does the postmartem of the words by bifurcating it into efa and Tria. The word yefa has other meanings also. In the Hieight the definition of hafa will be frallaferrohra I 375724a fa fa torej taforati If we, in the present context, interpret प्रकृति: संस्कृतं तत्र भवं प्राकृतमुच्यते it will mean that संस्कृत being the originator of प्राकृत comes first and प्राकृत being originated from Sanskrit comes after words. In this way it naturally follows that an is the offshoot or later development of the Sanskrit i.e., the Vedic language, because we have no hesitation to accept that Vedic language, the oldest language is the originator of both classical Sanskrit & Prakrit.
We may now conclude by admitting that both Sanskrit & Prakrit languages had their parallel development. Sanskrit being the language of the learned people was naturally the most refined form of speech regorously following the rules of Pāṇinian grammar and Prakrit being the language of the masses i.e. a dialect, was not so much bound by the grammatical rules and was full of diversified forms and yet abounding in forceful idioms and suggestivity.
R.C. Childers, the author of Pāli Dictionary has very aptly put the relation of Pāli the earlier Prakrit & Sanskrit in the following 'S. HULE: Ta YRAT 49197A, ARTUTAT, 8864, yo-C2,1
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