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6. Prākritākārādiśabdamāñjari, Mss. Adyar PL .p.156. (NCC. XIII,p. 143). 7. Subhāșa- Candrikā of Lakşmīdhara (c. middle of 14th cent.), is for the grammar of Trivikrama, what Siddhānta Kaumudi is for the Astādhyāyī of Pāṇini. Pub. Rao Bahadur Kamalashankar Pranashankar Trivedi, Bombay Sanskrit & Prakrit Series No.71, Bombay 1936. 8. Sarksiptasāre Prakstādhyāya of Karamadīśvara,. ed. by S.R.Banerjee, Pub. Prakrit Text Society, Ahmedabad 1976. 9. Hariņāmāmrte Praktapāda ed. by S.R.Banerjee, Bulletin of the Calcutta Philological Society, IV,1963, pp.10-31. 10. Prakritpadayavyākarana by anonymous, 11. Prakrit Pāthamālā of Muni Ratnacandra.
(III) Modern works on Prakrit Grammar:
1. Grammar of Prakrit language (English), by Dineśacandra Sircar, is based, mainly on the Pāli, Prakrit epigraphs and on the works of medieval Prakrit grammarians such as Vararuci, Kātyāyana, Bhāmaha, Hemacandra, Puruşottama and others, The work is divided into 12 chapters. The chapters 1-9 describe the grammatical structure of Māhārāstrī. The chapters 10-12 deal wth Paiśācī, Māgadhi and Saurasenī dilects, respectively. The minor Prakrit dialects described by Puruşottama in the Prakstānuśāsana and by Hemacandra in the Siddhahema Sabdānuśāsana are discussed in the appendix. It also contained introduction, notes, index and glossary. Pub. University of Calcutta, Calcutta 1943, p.10, 126, Motilal Banarasidass, Delhi, Ed. 2nd 1970, p.10,176, 2. Les Grammarians Prakrits by Luigia Nitti Dolci, contains the notable contribution of the author in identifying the original work of Vararuci from the chapters added later on. On convincing reasons he showed that the last three chapters of the Prakitprakāśa were interpolated by later authors. The author brought together materials from three
