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principal commentators of Prakrit Prakāśa, helpful in reconstructing the first eight chapters of the work, written by Vararuci. The reconstructed text may bring about some changes in the current view about Māhārāștrī Prakrit. The author also ventured to explore the works on the language of which Vararuci might have based his grammar. The author collected sufficient data to show that the grammarians in all likelihood had before him some recension of Hala's Saptaśatakaṁ. Pub. Adrien-Maisonneuve, Paris 1938, pp. ix+ 229. 3. Prakrit Grammarians by Late Luigia Nitti Dolci (translated into English from French by Prabhakara Jha), deals with the special features of the works of Vararuci, Bharat, Purușottama, Mārkandeya, Kramadīśvara, Hemacandra, Namisādhu, Trivikrama, Vālmīki, and Canda, especially regarding their treatment of sub-dialects. Pub. Motilal Banarasidass, Delhi 1972, p.12, 240, 4. Introduction to Prakrit (English) by A. C. Woolner, divided into two parts, deals with the three periods of the Indo - Aryan language, the three stages of the Middle period, the literary and spoken Prakrits, their classification and characteristics, general features, phonetics, their system of single consonants, compound consonants, vowels, sandhi, declension, conjugation, classification of Prakrit languages and their history of literature in the first part. The second part consists of a number of extracts from Sanskrit and Prakrit literature which illustrate different types of Prakrit dialectsSaurasenī, Māhārāștrī, Māgadhī, Ardhamāgadhī, Avantī, Apabhramsa etc. most of which are translated into English. The book contains valuable information on the phonetics and grammar of the Dramatic Prakrits- Sauraseni and Māhārāștri. It contains indices also. Pub. Motilal Banarasidass, Delhi 1972, p.12, 240,
5. Prakrit Praveśikā, is Hindi translation of AC Woolner's Introduction to Prakrit, Pub.Munshiram Manohar Lal Oriental Publishers, Delhi 1968,
