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Rh Apabhramsas with the Paisaci languages. Lists of Paisaci and: Apabhramsa dialects greatly overlap each other showing that the grammarians did not pay much regard for these uncultivated dialects. Maharashtri received their greatest attention, then Came Samaseni, then Magadhi, then Paisaci and lastly the Apabhramsas are dismissed with a bare mention. Except Ramasarma and to some extent Markandeya, no one seems to have dealt with the Apabhramsas. The latest opinion of scholars seems to be that the Apabhramsas are the uncultivated spoken dialects of which the Secondary Prakrits represent the cultivated phase, while the Paisaci languages are those non-Sanskritic Iranian dialects which had early found their way into India and of which Kashmiri and other languages of the north-west part of India form the existing links.

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