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TULSI-PRAJNĀ, July-Sept., 1992
R. Pischel wrote "Grammatic der Prakrit sprachen" with the back-ground of Indo-Aryan studies which again had been caused to draw the attention of other scholars like Sten Konow, to work on Prākrit languages. Dr. S. M. Katre's Lectures Introduction to modern Indian Linguistics with special referenee to Indo-Aryan and Assamese” (University of Gauhati, 1961) and Dr. A. M. Ghatage's lectures "Historical Linguistics and Indo-Aryan languages (University of Bombay, 1962) give us a good picture of Prakrit languages in growih of Indo-Aryan languages. Dr. S. K. Chatterji and Dr. Sukumar Sen's Middle Indo-Aryan Roader appeared from the University of Calcutta in 1957 which is very useful to understand the mportance of prakrit languages from the linguistic point of view. Dr. Gune's “Introduction to comparative Philology” is also a good source for the study concerned. He pointed out in his paper "Apabhramģa literature and its importance to philology” that Apabhramsa is the stage immediately preceding the modern Āryan vernaculars of India (Proceedings and Transactions of the First Oriental Conf Poona, 1919).
Dr. A. N. Upadhye read a paper on "Languages and dialects used in the Kuvalayamāla" wherein he presented a vast range of linguistic material with special significance for the study of Middle Indo-Aryan in particular and of Indian linguistic in general (A. I. 0. C., XII Session, Gauhati). S. N. Ghosal's "On the etymology of thc Prakrit vocable pore” (V. I. G., Hoshiyarpur, Vol. pt. 1, March, 1967,p. 38-40). Gurusevi Sharma's “Māgadhibhāsāsu kriyāpadānām visleşanam" (AI-C. Aligarhi), Munishiwar Jha's Modal Relations in Prakrits (ibid). Desi words in Kālidāsa's Prakrit (ibid), ctc. may be mentioned here where the said scholars dealt with different aspects of Prakrit languages and linguistics. 23. Studies in Prakrit Grammars :
Prākrit grammarians are divided into two sections,viz.one belongs to the Eastern school and another to the Western. The studies in Eastern school of Prākrit grammar were initiated by E. S. Cowell who published the Präkrit Prakash or the Prākrit grammar of Vararuci alongwith the oldest commentary called Manoramā by Bhāmaha (Hertford, 1854). He issued another edition of the same grammar with last chapter on Sauraseni as an appendix based on the Hemachandra's grammar (London, 1868). Its another edition was published by Ramashastri Telang from Benaras in 1899.
A number of commentaries have been written on Vararuci's Prakrit Vyakarana. Of these commentaries, Kātyāyana's commentary
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