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have not given any sub-dialect. Hemacandra adds Cūlikā Paisaci as a sub-dialect. Trivikrama, Lakshmidhara and Simharaja just follow Hemacandra. Purusottama gives three dialects viz. - Kaikeya, Saurasena and Pāñcala. Ramasarman gives these three and adds eight more. Markandeya, agreeing with Ramasarman about the Paisací dialocts, quotes some lines which indicate that Paisací had eleven regional dialects. 16 1. Kancidesīya,
2. Pandya, 3. Pāncala,
4. Gauda, 5. Magadha,
6. Vracada, 7. Dāksinātya,
8. Saurasena, 9. Kaikeya,
10. Sabara, 11. Drāvida
He further, describes only three of these viz, Kaikeya, Saurasena and Pāñcala and ignores the rest. Laksmidhara quotes two traditional verses which enumerate eleven Piśāca countries, 17 1. Pandya
2. Kekaya 3. Bahlika
4. Simha 5. Nepāla
6. Kuntala 7. Sudesna
8. Bhoja (Bhota ?) 9. Gāndhara
10. Haiva 11. Kannoja
Moreover there is no agreement among the Prakrit grammarians about the dialects of Prakrit itself : It is interesting to know that the seven Prakrit languages enumerated by Bharata viz., Māgadht, Avantija, Prācyā, Śaurasenī, Ardhamāgadhī, Bāhlikā and Dāksinātya are brought under the sub-dialects of Māgadhi and Paisaci by Canda in his grammar.18 This phenomenon may be noted in comparision with the various sub-dialects of Paisaci given above. Moreover we have no idea of the context as well as the authority of the quotations, left by Markandeya and
Laksmidhara, which could be of the nature of the traditional Jain Education International
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