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Vide, Why Kannada is not born of Sanskrit, Samyukta Karnataka Daily, 8.3.1972.
Pischel notes this more than once, Op.cit., p.29.
Vide CPC, p.51.
For further details on these legends and traditions, vide The Pahari Language, by George Grierson, Indian Antiquary Vol.XLIII, pp.143-151.
(i) And thereafter this Paisaci appears to have been imposed on goblins (Bhūtas, Pisacas, Raksasas) of imagination or belief by narrators of storics, religious men and literary figures.
(ii) Gunadhya's Paisacī in which is composed his Brhatkatha was literary Prakrit possibly agreeing with that of Hemacandra's Paisaci description.
(iii) Some scholars believe that Hemacandra's Paisacī illustrative quotation is the benedictory verse of the Brhatkatha itself.
(i) It may be noted that Nos.1, 2, 7 and 11 together do not make any feasible sense.
(ii) Moreover, it is difficult to imagine the region of the Sabaras.
The term kuntala has been used vaguely. It comprises different territorial units in different times under different regimes. Dr.D.C.Sircar presents an interesting discussion of this fact: Op.cit., pp.155-159.
For further details on this point vide Pt.Sheth's observations, Paia-Sadda-Mahannao, Varanasi 1963, Intro.p.21.
For details vide my paper, Nagavarma and Three and-a-half Languages, Journal of Karnatak University (Hum), Vol. XIX. Prakṛta-Kalpataru (III, 3.13), Ed.Dr.Manmohan Ghosh, Bibliothica Indica 278, Calcutta 1954.
Dr.Umarji also accepts that Kannada is a product of three
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