Prakrit Studies

Revered President, Fellow-delegates, Ladies and Gentemen, When the news reached me at the last session of the Oriental conference. at Ujjain that I was to preside over the Präkrit and Jainism section in the present session I was a bit uneasy. It was surely a heavy task and a man of my stature was hardly

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घोषाल का यह प्राच्यविद्या सम्मेलन के प्राकृत एवं जैन विभाग का सभापति-भाषण विज्ञान-प्रधान युग में प्राकृत-अध्ययन की आवश्यकता पर बल देता है। वे संस्कृत नाटकों की बोलियों, याकोबी द्वारा नामित जैन माहाराष्ट्री तथा संग्रह-ग्रन्थ गाथासप्तशती का सर्वेक्षण प्रस्तुत करते हैं। Ghosal's presidential address to the Prakrit and Jainism section of the Oriental Conference pleads for Prakrit study in an age given to science. He surveys the dialects of Sanskrit drama, Jaina Maharastri as named by Jacobi, and the anthological Gathasaptasati.

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