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one or more of the NIA. languages. But the forms with the suffix -d.-, viz. dorḍum (n.), dorḍi (f.) are peculiar to Gujarati. This would lead us to infer that the language of the source-work of Jambhaladatta's Vetālapañcavimsati contained some Gujaratisms. This surmise would be in keeping with the fact that Old Gujarati influence is observed also in the language of Śivadāsa's version," in Pūrṇabhadra's Pancākhyāna12 and in other similar collections of popular tales in Sanskrit.
11. J. Hertel. 'Śivadāsa's Vetālapancavimsatika, Festgabe Streitberg, 135 ff. (referred to by A. B. Keith (A History of Sanskrit Literature, 1953, Preface, p. xii).
12. Ed. Hertel, HOS 11-13, 1908-12. Vide, also Keith, op.cit.,
p. 261.
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