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Sten Konow (IR. A. S. 1901), T. Burrow (Sanskrit Language, London), J. Block (L Arda Area), M. Joseph Vendreyes (Le Language", Paris), John Lyons (Introduction of Theoretical Linguistics, Cambridge). Bloomfield (Language, London, 1988) Aladorf (Origins of New Indo-Aryan Languages) etc may also be mentioned who did comparative study of Prakrits. Inscriptional Prakrits were also linguistically studied by Hulsh (Inscriptions of Ashok (Oxford, 1925), Bulhar (Ashoka's Text and Glossary (Calcutta, 1924), Bloch (Ashoka a la Magadhi (BSOS, Vol VI. 2.1932) who tried to prove that the inscriptions had a great influence of Prakrits.
The Indian scholars too edited the works of Prakrit and Apabhramsa and discussed their characteristics in the introductions. Some articles and books have also been written on the subject. The articles on "Magadhi Prakrit and Bengali (IHQ. 1925) of M, Shahidulla, "Locative from in Paumacariya (BBRAS, 1957) and Maharashtri language and literature (JBU., 1936) of Dr. Ghatage." The Relation between Pali and Ardhamagadhi" (IHQ. Vol. VI. 1928) are related to Magadhi, Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrits. Likewise, the articles untitled" Paisaci Prakrit (IA XLVIII, 1919, P. P. 211-213) of M P.V. Ranganath Swami, Hemachandra and Paisaci Prakrit (IA. Li. 1922 pp. 51-54) of P. V. Ramanuja Svami, ("Paisaci Language and literature" of A.N. Upadhye (Annals of the B.O.R I. XXI. 1-2, pp. 1-37, Poona. 1940)are related to Pasaci Prakrit.
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Some more articles may be mentioned in this respect :-"The text of the Jainendra Vyakarana and the Priority of Candra to Pujyap da (ABORI. Vol XIII, 1931-32, pp. 25-36) of K B. Pathak," Joinder and his Apabhramsa works" (ABORI. Vol. XII. 2. pp. 132168, Poona, 1931), Subhacandra and his Prakrit Grammer (ABORI, Vol. XIII, 1931-32, pp. 37-58), The Prakrit Dialect of Pravacanasara of Jaina Sauraseni JUB. II. Bombay, May, 1934), Prakrit Studiestheir latest progress and future (A.I.O C., Haidarabad, 1941), A Prahrit Grammer attributed to Samantabhadra (III Q. XVII, pp. 511-16, Calcutta, 1952), Language and Dialects used in the Kuvalaya. mala (Summary of papers, A.I.D.C. XXII Session, Gauhati, 1965). Dr. Bhayani. Dr. Hiralal Jain, Muni Nathmal, K. Rishabh Chandra, Muni Nagaraj, also wrote some papers on the Prakrits.
Our Indian scholars have also discussed Prakrits from linguistic standpoint. Some of their papers m y be mentioned here: Introduction to Modern Indian Linguistics with special reference to IndoAryan and Assamese (Dr. S.M. Katre, University of Gauhati, 1941), Historical languistics and Indo-Aryan Languages (Dr. S M. Ghatage, University of Bombay, 1962), Prakrit Bhasha (Dr. Brabodh Pandit, Varanasi, 1954), Middle Indo-Aryan Reader (Dr. S.K. Chatarji and
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