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 86 Systems of Sanskrit Grammar pupil, no more did he care to teach him the section (or the thea section). And as it cannot be urged that section formed for the king a harder nut to crack than, for instance, the section, there was no apparent need for Sarvavarman's running into poetry and that for one or two sections only. The facts may have been these: A manual which made the king pro- ficient in grammar in a few months' time must have attracted the early notice of the courtiers and subjects of the king. The omission of area and other sections may then have been noticed and rectified-either by the origi- nai author or some other scholar. And the impetus to such additions being once given, the Katantra from being a mere uandbook issued forth into a full-blown system. $ 65-7 66. Nature of Sarvavarman's werk.--The nature of the in- provements made by Sarvavarman on the current text- books of grammar is evident even from that portion of the Katantra which we have no hesitation in accepting as his own genuine work. These consist in i. dispensing with the artiiicial arrangement of the letters of the alpha- bet introduced by Panini, and retaining in their stead their natural arrangement such as is found in the Prātisä- khyas.' ii. As a consquence the Pauinīya pratyahāras, which result in brevity as well as unintelligibility, are dispens- ed with, their place being taken by the earlier and sim- pler Sanjñās such as ere, use, a etc. This has saved the system the defining sütras, of which there is such a number in Pänini. iii. In the distribution of the subject. matter, in preference to the old artificial arrangement of Pänini there has been adopted one which is natural or topical, similar to that of the later Kaumudis. iv. Last- ly, as was essential in a work designed for beginners, the taken from the Pretiskhyas i The first sätra of the KEtantra... @tolgayere--is in fast