The Kätantra School [ who wrote a Sabdänuśäsana of his own and composed a com- mentary on it during the life-time of Hemachandra him- self, if we are to trust the evidence furnished by the in- stance raterrears: given in the commentary.' This would make Malayagiri flourish between A. D. 1143 and 1174. Malayagiri, unlike Hemachandra, used pratyähäras and followed on the lines of the Kätantra as well as Sakatayana. Unfortunately, the only Ms. of this work that has so far come to light is incomplete, and nothing further could be said of this work here. Regarding the Prakrit chapter of Hemchandra's Sab- danuśäsana and its subsequent history-for, it had an independent development of its own-we need not discuss it in this place as it is beyond the proper province of our essay, which is limited only to the Sanskrit schools of grammar. 81 From these sectarian schools of grammar we shall now turn to schools which are rather cosmopolitan in character, being designed mainly to appeal to the masses to schools whose object was to say just what is suffi- cient for a proper understanding of the language, to which grammar was considered, and justly considered, as only ancillory-to schools, namely, which go by the names of the Katantra, and the Sārasvata. The Kätantra School 63. The Katsutra school.-The name Kätantra, according to the commentators, means a short treatise, a handbook in other words in which the niceties of Panini's grammar have been dispensed with for the benefit of beginners. This view gains plausibility from a statement in the 1. Sus Dr. Kialbora's raport for 1880-$1, page 46.
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