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luminous, they must probably have contained refe- 

 rences to all the rules api)licable to every single verb 

 and noun. Haradatta's explanation of the title 

 coniirms this notion. But it does not appear that 

 any v/ork is now extant under this title. The D^ha- 

 tupat'a, Avith its commentaries, supplies the place of 

 the Dliatuparuijana. A collection of dictionaries 

 and vocabularies in like manner supplies the want of 

 the Nama paraijcm a. These tiien may be noticed 

 in this place as a branch of grammar. 



The best and most esteemed vocabulary is tlic 

 Amera cosha. Even the bigotry of Sang a it Acha- 

 RYA spared this, when he proscribed the other works 

 of Amera Sinha*. Like most other Sanscrit dic- 

 tionaries, 



* Amer-sinh was an eminent poet and one of the nine gems (for 

 so these poets were called), who were the ornament of Vicrama'- 

 DiTY.v's court. Unfortunately he htld the tenets of a heterodox sect • 

 and his poems arc said to have perished in the persecutions fomented by 

 intolerant philosophers against the persons and writings of both Jainas 

 and Baudd'has. The persecution instigated by Sancara and 

 Udayan 'Vcha'rya, were enforced, perh;ips from political motives, 

 by princes of the Fanhn'a'vaiirA S^aifa sects, who compelled the Baud- 

 p'ha rntinarchs to retire from Hhidustany and to content themselves 

 with 'lieir dominions of Ldsat a&r\i\ Bhot'a. It would becurious toin- 

 Testigate the date of this important revolution. The present conjec- 

 ture, for it is little more than mere conjecture, is partly founded upon 

 some acknowledgmenrs made by Pandits, who confer.s that Sancara and 

 Udayana persecuted the heterodox sects and proscribed their books; 

 and partly on the evidence of the engraved plate found at Mriifgagiri, 

 and of the inscription on the pillar found at BeJdl (See As. Res. 

 V.I. p. 123 Si. 138), from which it appears, that De'vapa'la De'va 

 belonged to the sect of Eudd'ha ; and that he reigned over Bengal 

 and C-jr'wfi/'^as well as Lasai'^znti Bhot; and had successfully invaded 

 Camboja, after traversing as a conqueror the Vhtd'hya range or moun- 

 tains. His descendants, as far as the fourth generation, governed a 

 no less cxteniive empire ; as appears from the inscription on the pillar 

 at Beddl. I must however acknowledge, that this last mentioned in- 

 scription does not indicate any attachment to the sect of Budd'ha. 

 This may be accounted for by supposing that the worshippers of 

 Crishn'a and of Ra'ma were then 35 cordial to the followers of 

 Buod'ha, as they now are towards each o.ther. The king and his 

 minister might belong to different sects. 



Amera 



