Apabhramsa (Ap.) is the name of the tertiary stage of the Middle Indo-Aryan, current during the period between A.D. 500-1200. As Apabhramsa forms the previous stage of modern Indo-Aryan languages like Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali etc., its study is essential not only for its literature but also for the formation of modern Indian languages. The present volume is a chrono-regional study of nearly all the edited Ap. Texts available upto 1945, as this is a reprint of the Thesis accepted by the University of Bombay for the degree of Ph.D. in September 1946. The Ap. Texts were classified according to the place of their composition and the linguistic data was arranged in a chronological sequence and thus the space-time context of each form was determined. The texts were regionally grouped as: (1) Western Apabhramsa, the area of present day Gujarati, Hindi, Rajasthani dialects; (2) Southern Ap., roughly Marathi speaking area and its adjoining districts; and (3) Eastern Ap., the area of modern Bengali, Bihari, Oriya. No text representing Northern Ap. Belonging to this period was then available. After illuminating the term Ap. and fixing its period and classifying the texts in their space-time context, the author offers a general conspectus of the phonological and morphological features of A.p. in the Introduction. Then follow sections on Phonology, Declension, Conjugation, Nominal Stem-formation according to diachronic method connecting the evolved linguistics features to its modern descendant wherever possible. The work ends with an Index Verborum which lists all the words occurring in the study with their Sk. & Pkt.etymoligies as well as references to their cognates in the modern Indo-Aryan As Dr. Siddheshwar Varma says, "It is the history of Indo-Aryan between A.D.500-1200".

About the Author:

Dr. G. V. Tagare, M.A., B.T., Ph.D. (b. 1911) is a versatile writer on Indology, Linguistics and Education. After a brilliant academic career he joined Bhor State Service and was the Director of Public Instruction of the State in Indian Union. After merger, in the Maharashtra Education Service, he worked as a Professor of Education in the Secondary Training (S.M.T.T.) College at Kolhapur. Besides contributing papers on Education (including Audiovisual Education) to various educational journals he carried out research in Linguistics (Middle Indo-Aryan and Marathi) and discovered a number of old unpublished Sanskrit and Marathi MSS. These papers were published in various Indological and other research journals.

FRONTISPIECE

DEDICATION

PREFACE

ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. APABHRAMSA PHONOLOGY

CHAPTER II. DECLENSION IN APABHRAMSA

CHAPTER III. CONJUGATION IN APABHRAMSA

CHAPTER IV. NOMINAL STEM-FORMATION IN APABHRAMSA

INDEX VERBORUM

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