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 The Saupadma School The Saupadma School 90. The Saupadma school of Padmanabhadatta.The origi- nator of this school is a Maithila Brahman named Padma. näbhadatta, the son of Damodaradatta and grandson of Śridatta. This Padmanabhadatta is to be distinguished from another writer of the same name, the son of Ganes- vara and grandson of Sripati, who wrote for the school a work called Prishodarādivritti, which was written, accord- ing to the author's own statement, in Saka 1297 (A. D. 1375). If this date be correct' it follows that the other Padmanabhadatta, the founder of the Saupadma school, was either a contemporary or lived very shortly after Ujjvaladatta, whom he mentions as one of hisauthorities in his lexicon called Bhüriprayoga. His being placed in the last quarter of the fourteenth century does not, at any rate, conflict with any other hitherto ascertained facts. [- § 91 III 91. Special features of the Saupadma.-Regarding the work of Padmanabhadatta it is, as he himself states, based upon Panini, some of whose sutras and technical terms as also his pratyaharas he has retained verbatim. He has, of course, remodelled a greater part of Panini's rules and ar- ranged them in a somewhat more methodical form, adding a short explanation of his own after each sutra. His 1 A ms. of the work is no. 228 2 Compare-atendecien- of Notices, second series, vol. i. The date looks rather suspicious from the fact that in the beginning of the same work the author has attempted to trace his ancestry from Vararuchi, one of the nine 4 The work consists of five chap- goms in the court of vikram- ters dealing with i, aditya. Necdless to say that the attempted geneology is a failure. rand üi. strea; iv. and ma suffixes; and v. Atverige: revarater st for 3 Thus Panini's fat is changed into f F
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