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ORIGIN OF PRAKRIT
MURALYDHAR BANERJEE
Prakrit grammarians regard Prakrit to be derived from Sanskrit. Prāksta is explained as a language having a Praksti or source which, in this case, is taken to be Sanskrit. Commentators on Poetics also subscribe to this view. This view, however, is disputed by some Indian writers. Vākpatirāja (8th Century A.D.) 8 states—“All the speeches enter into it (Prakrit) and come out of it just as all waters fall into the Ocean and come out of it." Namisadhu, a Jaina scholar, (11th Century A.D.),
1. sofa: Hari TT VE 31 at Siddha Hemacandra, 8.
1. 1. tora: 86 T ya sonrad MärkandeyaPrakrtasarvasva, p. 1. tarat: FeaTres fala: galit Aa Şadbhāşacandrika, sofa: fpei 7 MEGAT TEST Fan Prakrtacandrika quoted in Peterson's Third Report 343-7. प्राकृतस्य तु सर्वमेव संस्कृतं योनिः Prakrtasanjivani quoted by Vasudeva in his Commentary on Karpuramañjari, 9.11. ed. Bombay, Cf. Pischel's Grammatik der Prakrit-Sprachen,
1. 2. tandemuat napet safa: penery Dhanika on Dasarupaka, 2. 64.
प्रकृतेः संस्कृतादागतं प्राकृतम् Simhadevagani on Vagbhatalaikara, 2.2. Fica peragrur: Intel WAIT Tartu Premacandra Tarkavāgiša
on Kavyadarsa, 1. 13. 3. Gaudavaho, ed. S.P. Pandit, Introduction, p. 100. 4. Hurrent poi arut farsifat gut a unitat ararati
gfa we fra ofa Hreersit fara urant ll Ibid., sl. 93. 5. Namisadhu finished his Commentary in Samvat 1125, i.e.,
1069 A.D.
