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Studies in Jainology, Prakrit
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Paper presented at the All India Seminar on Jainism (Karnatak University) Dharwad 1975 and published in the Jain Antiquary, Vol. xxviii, 1976. Karnatak Publishing House, Bombay 1938, p.3. This tradition corroborated by several literary, cpigraphic and archaeological evidences, is of course accepted as a fact of history by eminent scholars like Rice, Smith, Sheshagiri Rao, Aiyangar, Sharma, Saletore etc. As reflected in the Kavirājamārga of Nrpatunga viz., Verses 27-32. Prakrta Bhasa aur Sahityaka Alocanātmaka Itihāsa, Varanasi 1966, pp.43-44. At this context I am tempted to note here a novel thesis putforth by Dr.S.B.Joshi who holds that the Prakrit that flourished on the banks of the Jamunā was born of the association of the Yādavas, who were Dravidians, with the Aryans. And the Kandamil, language of these people was converted into Kannada owing to its association with Sanskrit and Prakrit. Moreover some Jainas that moved from the North to Karnatak already knew Kannada. Vide Karnataka Samskrtiya Pūravapīthike, Dharwad 1966-67 Part I, P.538 part II p.83. Comparative Grammar of the Prakrit languages, English Tr. by Subhadra Jha, Delhi 1957, Intro P.21. Introduction to Bhavisattakahā: Younger literary Prakrits,
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pp.81-99.
Communication over Digambara Texts, Hermann Jacobi,
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