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 of Ujjayin, and that the language which he carried to was the ordinary vernacular of his own province. 1 - dialect was not very different from that of Magadha, and v l:a may have slightly altered the Magadhi sayings of

• master, by his Ujjayini pronunciation, while retaining one Magadhi out of deference to the sacred associations clustered round the birthplace of Buddha. Be this as it may, the nearest Indian dialect to Pali seems tedly to be the Prakrit of the Bhagavati, a sacred book - mi-Buddhist sect of Jainas. If Hemachandra, him- self a Jain and author of several works on Prakrit, were ble for reference, our task would be easier; as yet, how- none of Hemachandra's writings have been printed or Weber's articles on the Bhagavati are at present our - mrce of information. 2 In the Jaina Prakrit the ten conjugations of the Sanskrit .:<-, with few exceptions, reduced to the Bhu type. In . - : spect it goes further than Pali, treating as verbs of the -' conjugation many which in Pali retain the type of other g itions. The fifth, seventh, and ninth conjugations, in Sanskrit insert «^ with certain variations, are all • d to one head by regarding the «^ as part of the root, w is also the case with the T( of the fourth class. The a 1 between the root and termination of the Bhu class I throughout, though occasionally weakened to /, or ! toefrom some confusion between this and the e = aya, ■ h the type of the tenth class. The following examples istrate the above remarks.

B itriige, p. 7.

idmirable edition of Hemachandra's Grammar (Orphanage Press, Halle,

led me just as this work i< going to press, and too late to be of use

• . except for a few h isty noti - h< re and there. Mueller's Beitrage zur

- Juinaprakrit came into my hands about the Bame time. I find it

idd .1 few illustrations to this section, which, however, was written in

•, •'. of is:, - ..