Systems of Sunshrit Grammar nowhere refers to the Sarasvata school. If the school existed in his days-if it had attained a sufficient stand- ing in the eyes of scholars--we should naturally expect Bopadeva to niemion it, just as he does many other estab- lished schools and authors. Nor does the school appear to have been known to Hemachandra. Further, none of the commentaries on the Sarasvata belongs to a date carlier than 1450 A. D., and the majority of them were written in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Looking to the native pluces of the different commenta- tore and the places where the Mss. were copied or dis- covered, it has to be admitted that the influence of the school, oven in the most glorious period or its existence, was mostly limited to Northern India: to Gujarat, Naga- pur, Cdepur, Bikaner, Delhi and Bengal The school continued in vigour down to the modern revival of Panini under the auspices of Blautoji Dikshita and his pupils, when most schools of grammar began to decline and were driven into the corners of Bengal and other out-lying districts. The Sarasvata school was probably the last to go. These facts when taken in conjunction with the extremely simple and brief manner in which the Sarasvata treats its entire subject-700 stras as against the 4,000 1 Seven hundred sütr.s-i. e, lu the original spa f the school. This section 1: made in the loss of the Descar Cules - 10. 9 maidens filt ore nim Gilas or vites, m: real- ing the total of CES. The origiasi rder of the güns seems to be prsserveil .n thi. Me. alone other Mas, nousliy follow the areer of nuthu- tisvarūpacharya in l.is Särse- vata-prakriya. This in two 3s, o tip ve au llege $6 am. 10 f A. is.) al lart ss is wad 6, Indling some Fr tvice and ea ratiba istretly given by Artūracharya We are in fact to Jaringuish clearly between the rassta-alasatrapatha the faraevataprakriya- sutrapatha.
