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compilation based on early works. It is also considered as a commentary on the sutras of Valmiki with a gloss. Pub. T.T. Srinivasagopālācāra, Oriental Research Institute Mysore, 1953, p..364. Mss. Hz. 265; Extr.67; MD 16861; Mysore I. p. 327; Skt. Coll. Mys. p.7.
13.Prakri Rūpāvatāra of Simharaja(15th cent.), son of Samudravandheyas of Western School, divided his Prakrit work containing 1063 sūtras, into technical terms(sañjñā), convention (paribhāṣā), samhita, word declinsions (subanta), root declinsions (tiñnanta) and dialects Sauraseni etc. It may be called a counterpart of the Laghukaumudi of Varadaraj. The author undertook an independent arrangement of the rules, drawing on the same collection of sūtras, which in their original sequence, are known to have been comented on by Trivikrama. It is an important treaty for the knowledge of the declension and conjugation, chiefly because Simharaja quotes more than Hemacandra and Trivikrama. The work is divided into XXII chapters. Pub. by E. Hultzsch, Royal Asiatic Society, Prize Publication Fund No. 1.London 1909.Mss. Adyar D. VI. 731; Pul. II.p. 85; Trav. Uni. 155 (inc.) 500, 5118; Wish 154.
14. Prakritānanda of Raghunatha Sarman (18th cent.), contains 419 sūtras. It treats of words and roots in two sections (paricchedas) respectively. It presents a short form of Prakrit Prakasa of Vararuci. Pub. ed. Jinavijaya muni, Rajasthan Puratana Sastra Sangraha, Rajasthana Oriental Research Institute, Jodhpur, 1954.Mss. Lahore 6; Proceed ASB 1880, Radh 38; (NCC .XIII, p. 143).
15. Prakritānuśāsana by Purusottama (1265 CE), the best representative Prakrit grammarain of the Eastern School. He forms the triad with Ramatarkavāgīśa and Markandeya. Very little is known about his life and personal history. It contains a curious farrago of dialects, which renders that work a mine of interesting forms of Prakrit. The Prakrit dialects described by him are Māhārāṣṭrī (upto
