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 68 Systems of Sanskrit Grammar § 50-] to be attended to when the original on which it was based came to be studied more and more. It was meant to appeal to a sect and even there it was not without a rival. To this day it draws a solitary student here and there from amongst the Digambara Jains, especially of Southern India. The Saktayana School 31. The Sakaṭāyana School.-Separated from the Jainen- dra school by some two centuries or so but much allied to it in its object and the mode of treatment comes the Sakaṭāyana Sabdanuśāsana, which, like its predecessor, was meant to appeal to a limited body of co-religionists: the Svetämbara Jains. To judge from the number of regular commentaries and other accessory treatises in connection with this school and from the numerous references to it in works like the Ganaratna-mahodadhi, Madhaviya- Dhātuvritti and so forth, it would appear that at one time the Sabdanuśasana was largely studied among members of communities other than those to whom it was primarily addressed. There is not much originality in the work itself to deserve this popularity. 52. The founder of the Sakatayana Sabdanuśasana not the ancient Śāksṭāyana but his modern namesake.-The name Śāka- tãyana suggests, as we have seen, a very high antiquity in that it is quoted in the Nirukta (i. 3) and in Panini's Ashtadhyayi (iii. 4.111, viii. 3.18, viii. 4.50). Here, how- ever, we are dealing not with the ancient Säkaṭāyana-- none of whose works have survived even in name--but with a modern or abhinava Sakatayana: with the person who under this appelation is quoted, for instance, in Bopadeva's Kamadhenu,' by Hemachandra, and other later writers, 1 Colebrooke, Mis. Essays, Vol. II. p. 44; Aufrecht's Oxford Catalogue p. 176 a.