Systems of Sanskrit Grammar päkarāsorakriya which says that this grammar was prior designed for the use of Webe, in his history of indian Liversaire p. 227 noles that this grom.. ar is meant for those who wished to approach Sanskrit through Prakrit, and that the Pä!! gram- mar of Kachchayans was based upon the Kätantra. We have cise where (page 10) spoken of the relation which Dr. Burnall discovered between this and the Tamil grammer, and of these again with the ancient Prätisakhyas and other Aindra treatises. All accounts thus agree in stating that the Katantra. grammar was not the creation of a school, but was rather meant to satisfy a real popular need; and looking to the intrinsic merits of the work itself, as also to the host of commentators that have been attracted towards it, it is clear that the work must buye served its purpose pretty well, at least for a tinie 54. Traditio: el account about arvavarman, the founder of the school.-Iho Kätantrs is otherwise known as Kaumāra or Kalapa, and the traditional explanation of the genesis of these two names is as follows: There once lived in the Deccan a king called Satavahana" who, while one day having jala-seli with his queen, was requested by her recom" meaning "Pray, do not sprinkle any more M. Nc. 3.6 of 1875-76 from the Desca College Library. 2 The tradition is mentioned in Dr. Bialer's Report for 1875- 76. p. 74, and detailed in the Senare by ca Ma. of which is No. 50 of Noties*, Second Sories, by Haraprasada Shastri. 1 Is it to be identitied with be Andhra King of that name mentiuned on p. 208 of V. A. Smith's Early History of ludi, wird edition, published in 1914 In that case the beginning of the Katantra will have to be put in the drat century of the Christian ere
