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 § 75 - 1 Systems of Sanskrit Grammar assume was the person who, in response to a felt demand, producel tito Sarasvatasitras, and thus made it possible even for the foreign rulers of India to got an insight into a bit literature. 79. Ph: Sharafa pdf yafubitovarupachsya-From thie ober, 2 dhost mythical personage, who could nd have lit el prior to the establishment of Muhammeden rule in India, cur usat leap in the history of this school is to Anulcristapacharya the author of the Sārasvato- pakriya. Hay have had one or two predecessors in his task. Anyhow when he took up the task, there was probably such a confusion in the order of the Sarasvata- has that he found it necessary to rearrange (*) the whole matter for logical presentation. Anul hütisrarüpacharya could not have lived earliet than 1250 and later thau 1450, whon Punjaraja the ear est of his known commentators lived. When the stras once received a stereo-typed form at the hands of Anu- bhitisvarapa, the future history of this school is mainly one of commentaries and sub-commentaries; and the fact that very few of the commentators and they are over fifteen in the course of about 175 years-make any really original contribution, but confine themselves merely to an explanation more or less accurate, only means that the grammar was meant for practical purposes only. That there should have arisen so many commentators at all is to be explained on the ground that the several local Fandits felt it necessary, in vindication of their scholar- ship, to write for their patrons fresh commentaries rather than take up those already existing. 77. Commentators on the Sarasvata-prakriya.-We shall now give short notices of these commentators one by one. Punjaraja-He belonged to the Srimala family of Malabar which some time or other settled in Maiva. He