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 109 [- § 88 The Jaumara School abridgment of no other grammar than Panini's, it is pos- sible that this was the first of its kind, prior to the Pra- kriya- and Siddhanta-kaumudīs. Aufrecht in fact makes the school even anterior to Bopadeva, though Colebrooke places it immediately after. 87. Special features of the Jaumara - Kramadīśvara seems to have composed his grammar on the model of Bhartri- hari's Mahabhashya-dipikā, and he has taken most of his illustrations from the Bhaṭṭikāvya. The work meant as an epitome of the Ashtadhyāyi is about three-fourths as large as that work. The only changes effected by Kram- adiśvara were confined to the rejection of a few super- fluous or difficult rules of Pāņini and the adoption of a different mode of arrangement. The work is divided into seven pädas,¹ the eighth dealing with Präkrit being add- ed later. In the mode of systematising the grmmati- cal material, as also in accuracy and method, the gram- mars of Bopadeva and others certainly compare favour- ably with this grammar, which may be due to its being perhaps the first of its kind. Still it is not altogether wanting in correct reasoning, and the erudition displayed by Kramadīšvara is far in advance of that of popular grammarians. 88. Commentaries on the Jaumara.-The Sankshiptasāra as it left the hands of Kramadiśvara must have been either incomplete or deficient, and it has undergone a more or less thorough revision at the hands of Jumaranandi who is styled in the mss. H. Detractors of the school make much fun of the name Jumaranandî, which they believe belongs to a man of the weaver caste. Jumara- nandi's vritti is known as Rasavati and in consequence the school itself bore the name of Răsavata under which 1 Namely, we af, and.