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Studies in Jainology, Prakrit
Trivikrama recognizes Hemacandra as his authority!4 and follows him mostly both in respect of his grammar in general and the list of Desī words in particular: "Thus thc subject matter of 1119 sūtras of Hemacandra has been compressed by Trivikrama in about 1000 verses"'. Moreover, "It is casy to prove that Trivikrama has drawn largely upon Hemacandra's vocabulary of such Desī words.»»16 Yet, Trivikarama has his points: Hemacandra refers in his grammar to Desī words in a single sutra, 17 whereas Trivikrama in his work brings the same topic under six sūtras 8 thereby classifying Desi words into six groups according to their nature. Hcmacandra produces a separate work containing the Desi words, whereas Trivikrama attempts to bring "all the Desi words into the fold of grammar.”lo Besides, he gives a few words which are not traceable to DNM and hence are his own contribution. And this contribution is of special interest to Southerners, particularly to students of Telugu and Kannada,20 for he was “prbably an Andhra with close contacts with Karnataka.”:21
The nature and implications of Desi words were discussed at length and the probability of the contribution of Dravidian languages to the Prakritic vocabulary was hinted at by Dr.P.L. Vaidya long ago. 22 Then, Dr.A.N.Upadhye, discussing the historic, linguistic and literary background of ancient Karnatak, established the inevitability of the Kannada influence on the Prakritic vocabulay and traced about 39 words from Desi lexicons to Kannada.23 Recently, the author of the present paper, in a similar attempi, traced to Kannada some 19 words from DNM.24 Now, this paper aims at giving a critical list of a few more words from the Desi stock, viz. Dhanapala's PLM, Hemacandra's DNM and the list of Desi words given by Trivikrama in his PSM, which appear to have cntered from Kannada. This list, too, with tentative conclusions, does not claim to be final or exhaustive.
The following are a few words from Dhanapala's PLM which appear to have been taken from Kannada.
Kanaiam - ( = covered with spots).
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