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 14 NOTE TO THE INTRODUCTION. TADB ( HAVAM TERMS DERIVED THROUGH THE CHVLICA OR CHULICA-PA1- SACHI, SPOKEN IN THE COUNTRIES OF GANDARA, NEPALA AND CUNTALA. SANSCRIT. CHULICA. TELUGU- Briindah Puncio Pindu an assemblage. < / Bud, hah intelligent Puddo Pedda great; peddavandu a ivise man fyc. Swernam Panao Ponnu gold. Mriigah Mico Mecamu a beast. Brad.hnah Paddo Produ & Poddu sun rise. " TADB.HAVAM TERMS DERIVED THROUGH THE APAB HRAMSA SPOKEN IN THE COUNTRY OFAB,HIRA AND THE COAST OF THE WESTERN OCEAN. SANSCRIT. APABHRAMSA. TELUGU. i i Brahmanah Bamb.hadu Bapadu a Brahman. Abad,ham Abadd,hu Baddu an Untruth. Stanam Tanu Tsannu the bosom. 'Srutam heard Sudu Tsaduvu reading or learning."

NOTE. Apabramsa means, literally, corrupted language; but the author says the word is not to be taken in this sense, but as the proper name of the dialect, and to this purpose quotes a verse from Appacavi, one of the commentators on the Nannayabhattiyam, who states the same, and adds it was the speech of the goddess Saraswati in her youth, and that it's terms, therefore, are without exception, pure. Words which have passed through this dialect to the.Telugu are, however, more frequently used by the 'Sudra tribes than by the Brahmans.

The proportion of corrupt, or, more appropriately, permuted terms in Telugu of the several derivations above noticed, may be stated as follows ; Sanscrit Tadbhavam one half; Pracrit, one quarter; Sauraseni one tenth; Magadhi one twentieth ; the Paisachi, Chulica, Apabramsa together one tenth. Mr. Colebrooke, in his dissertation on the Sanscrit and Pracrit languages, admits but of three distinctions ; these two and the Magad.hi, or Apabramsa, which he considers the same. The six Pracrits here enumerated, however, are six distinct dialects, each formed, as to terms, according to it's own rules of permutation, but all following the idiom, collocation and, with special exceptions, the general grammar of the Sanscrit : in the Shadbasha-chandrica by Lacshmid,hara, a joint grammar of the six Pracrits, after general rules applying to all, the Pracrit