Part 4.6 - Trivikrama’s Prakrit Grammar

Trivikrama's Prakrit Grammar For all practical purposes, the volume of Trivikrama's grammar is the same as that of Hemacandra. He has compressed the subject matter of the two works, viz., Desinamamala and Siddhahema of Hemacandra into one. Hemacandra's work has greater clarity than Trivikrama's Trivikrama's Sutrapatha contains 1036 sutras divided into twelve padas and three adhyayas, as against 1119 in four padas of the eighth adhyaya of Hemacandra's Siddhahema. The subject-matter covered by both is almost the same. Trivikrama has newly added a few sutras, of which 17 relate to new technical terms used by Trivikrama,, four sutras relate to the groups of Dest words for which Hemacandra has only one sutra in his grammar, and an entire work, the Desinamamala and the remaining sutras add a few new words not treated by Hemacandra. ' Trivikrama's work contains about 1600 Dest words His special contributions are the topics 1, 3, 106, 1, 4, 121, 2, 1, 30, 3, 1, 132 and 3, 4, 72, in which he has collected together the words that cannot be regulated according to the rules of grammar, and in a great measure, belong to the category of Dest, Dest, thus for instance in 3, 4, 72 they are expressly designated desyah. " $ Trivikrama has classified the dest words into six groups. But he does not seem to follow. any definite principle in giving Dhatvadesas; > he has split them up into 2. 4. and 3 1 and also in 3 4. Among the list of desi words, we find a few which are not traceable to Desinamamala. Such words may be treated as Trivikrama's contribution. He might have added them anew from sources or sources later than Hemacandra ³ contemporary The other two works, namely Prakrtarupavatara and Sadbhasacandrika are meagre and less authentic compared to Hemacandra's and Trivikrama's grammar. Moreover they are mainly based on Trivikrama's grammar.