Sg4 ON SANSCRIT AND 



said of the Pais'dchi, as a language, (and distinguished 

 from thejargonor gibberish whicli either dramatick wri- 

 ters, or actors exhibiting their dramas, sometimes put 

 into the mouths of demons) ; for the grammarians of 

 Prdcnt teach the manner of forming the Pals cichi* 

 from the dialect called S>'aurasem.\ That remark may 

 be also extended to Apahhransa as a fixed language 

 partaking of Prdcnt and S'aurasSm^ but deducing ma- 

 ny terms immediately from the Sanscrit under rules 

 of permutation peculiar to itself. J 



The affinity of these dialects o( Prdcrit to the San- 

 scrit and to each other is so great, that they recipro- 

 cally borrow, notwithstanding their own particular 

 rules, terms permuted in the manner of other dialects, 

 and even admit, without alterarion, words inflected ac- 

 cording to the Sa/iscnt grammar. ^ They may be, 

 therefore, considered as dialects of a single language, 

 the Prdcrit or derivative tongue ; so termed with re- 

 ference to Sanscrit, from which it is derived. 



Be.sides these cognate dialects, the dramatjck writers 

 introduced other languages as spoken by different per- 

 sons of the drama. Such, according to the enumeration 

 in the Sdhitya derfan'a, |[ are the Ddcshindtyd, ^ or lan- 

 guage used in the south of India', the Drdvi'di or 



• Or language of the Piil-'-chas. [See Plate A. Fig. ^,] Bhama- 



ilA on V AKARUCHI. 



t Varahuchi and Hem^chandra. The last mtnlioned author 

 notices a variaiion of this dialect undrr the name of ChuUcapaisuchi j 

 which differs very little from the proper Puifachi. 



X It is taught under thij nanij by Hemachandra, among other 

 dia'ects of Prdcrit. But the name ueiialiy signifies ungrammatical 

 languae;e. 



§ Hemachandra ad finem. 



il Ch. 5. 



*II Some with Vaidarhhi, according to the commentator of the 

 S'thiiiia derpana. The country of Fiderbha is said to be the modern 

 jBtrar proper. 



