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treatment of Apabhraṁsa in Caņda's Prakrit Lakṣaṇa is not significant. Kramadīśvara's Sanskrit Grammar Sañksiptasāra, Purusottama's Prakritānuśāsana and Rāmatarkavāgisa's Prakritkalpataru deal with Apabhrarśa as well. Some of the modern works dealing with Apahraṁsa are as follows1. Prakrit Vyākarana contains sūtras of the eighth chapter of Hemacandra's Siddhahema Vyākaraṇa on Apabhramsa with Sanskrit rendering. Pub. Ācārya Jinakrpacandrasūri, Nirnayasagar Press, Mumbay 1918, p. 243. 2. Apabhraíśa Studien, Ludwig's Alsdorf ,Leipzig 1937. 3. Historical Grammara of Apabhraṁsa (English) by Gajanana Vasudeva Tagare is a chronological study of nearly all the edited Apabhramśa texts available upto 1945. The Apabhrarśa texts were classified according to the place of their composition and the linguistic data was arranged in a chronological sequence and thus the spacetime context of each form was determined. The texts were regionally grouped as: (1) Western Apabhramśa ,the area of present-day Gujarati, Hindi and Rajasthani dialects; (2) Southern Apabhramsa, roughly Marathi speaking area and its adjoining districts; (3) and Eastern Apabhraíśa, the area of modern Bengali, Bihar and Oriya. No text representing Nothern Apabhramśa belonging to this period was then available. After illuminating the term Apabhraṁsa and fixing its period and classifying the texts in their space-time context, the author offers a general conspectus of the phonological and morphological features of Apabhraíśa in the introduction. Then follow sections on phonology, declension, conjugation, nominal stemformation according to diachronic method connecting the evolved linguistic features to its modern descendant wherever possible. The work ends with an index verborum which lists all the words occurring in study with their Sanskrit and Prakrit etymologies as well as references to their cognates in the modern Indo-Aryan. In fact, the work presents the history of Indo-Aryan during CE 500-1200. Pub.
