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 Systems of Sanskrit Grammar $59- Hemachandra. Here, as in most of the commentaries on the Sabdanusasana, the colophons of the original work are mistaken for those of the commentaries themselves. 78 60. Commentaries on Hemachandra's Sabdanusisana. The most important and extensive of these commentaries or rather sub-commentaries is the Brihadvritti-dhundhika. No complete Ms. of this work has been hitherto discover- ed, the longest extending only upto the fifth adhyâya. The Mss. indifferently call it a, xaqft, gay and gr. Its authorship also is equally uncertain. Many Mss. and reports ascribe it to Hemachandra, which is very probably a mistake. A Ms.¹ from the Deccan College collection, which contains the commentary on adhyayas vi. and vii, is stated to have been the work of Dhana- chandra. Another Ms. of the Dhundhika purports to be the work of Jinasagara, while a third which contains only a fragment from the ākhyāta section gives Nandasundara as its author. These conflicting statements it is very hard to reconcile. The most probable view is that there were two slightly varying versions of the Dhundhika and con- sequently there may have been two separate authors. Whether each wrote a commentary on all the seven adhyayas or only on portions from them it is perhaps im- possible to decide. The Dhundhika on the eighth or the Prakrit chapter is the work of Udayasaubhagya, pupil of Harshakula of the Laghutapagachchha. It was written in 1533 A. D. during the reign of Bahadur Shah of Gujarat (1525-1537). The object of a Dhundhika is to take the various sutras of the Sabdanuśāsana in order, explain them word by word, and in the majority of cases to quote instances of its application, deriving the several forms step by step by bringing in the necessary sutras. Another very useful commentary on the Brihadvritti is by Devendrasuri, pupil of Udayachandra of the Chan- 7 No. 119 of 1869-70. 1 No. 10 of 1877-78.