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== Name of Shiva == | == Name of Shiva == | ||
[[List of Shiva's thousand names]] includes ...[[Vararuchi]]. | [[List of Shiva's thousand names]] includes ...[[Vararuchi]]. | ||
== Jat History == | |||
[[Bhim Singh Dahiya]]<ref>[[Jats the Ancient Rulers (A clan study)/The Jats]],p.15</ref> writes ....Now let us see how, त (t) of Gitta (ग़ित्त) becomes ' ट ' (T) of Giṭṭa (गिट्ट) This change of dental surd into a cerebral is very common in Prakrit language. Everybody knows how Pattan (पत्तन) becomes Paṭṭan (पट्टन) , in the name Anhillapaṭṭan. Grammarian [[Vararuchi]] in his Prakrtaprakasha, formulated a special rule for the change of त (t) into ट (ṭ) (III, 23). Hemachandra also gives examples of ट (t) (III,23). Hemachandra also gives examples of this change of dental into a cerebral, viz., [[Tagara]] → [[Ṭagara]], [[Trasara]] → [[Ṭasara]], [[ṭuvara]] → [[tuvara]]. <ref>[[Buddha Prakash]], Studies in Ancient Indian History and Civilisation, p. 405. ,p.259</ref> It is this manner that Jat becomes Jaṭ (जात → जाट). | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
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Vararuchi) (वररुचि) is a name associated with several literary and scientific texts in Sanskrit.
Identified with Kātyāyana
Vararuci is often identified with Kātyāyana.[1] Kātyāyana is the author of Vārtikās which is an elaboration of certain sūtrās (rules or aphorisms) in Pāṇini's much revered treatise on Sanskrit grammar titled Aṣṭādhyāyī. Kātyāyana is believed to have flourished in the 3rd century BCE.[2]
Vararuchi the author of Prākrita Prakāśa
However, this identification of Vararuci with Kātyāyana has not been fully accepted by scholars.[3] Vararuci is believed to be the author of Prākrita Prakāśa the oldest treatise on the grammar of Prākrit language.[4] Vararuci's name appears in a verse listing the 'nine gems' (navaratnas) in the court of one King Vikrama.[5]
Vararuci, the character in Kathasaritsagara
Vararuci appears as a prominent character in Kathasaritsagara ("ocean of the streams of stories"), a famous 11th century collection of Indian legends, fairy tales and folk tales as retold by a Saivite Brahmin named Somadeva.
Name of Shiva
List of Shiva's thousand names includes ...Vararuchi.
Jat History
Bhim Singh Dahiya[6] writes ....Now let us see how, त (t) of Gitta (ग़ित्त) becomes ' ट ' (T) of Giṭṭa (गिट्ट) This change of dental surd into a cerebral is very common in Prakrit language. Everybody knows how Pattan (पत्तन) becomes Paṭṭan (पट्टन) , in the name Anhillapaṭṭan. Grammarian Vararuchi in his Prakrtaprakasha, formulated a special rule for the change of त (t) into ट (ṭ) (III, 23). Hemachandra also gives examples of ट (t) (III,23). Hemachandra also gives examples of this change of dental into a cerebral, viz., Tagara → Ṭagara, Trasara → Ṭasara, ṭuvara → tuvara. [7] It is this manner that Jat becomes Jaṭ (जात → जाट).
References
- ↑ Edwards Byles Cowell (1854). The Prākrita-prakāsa or the Prākrit grammar of Vararuci with the commentary (Manorama) of Bhāmaha. Hertford, England: Stephen Austin, Book Sellers to East India College.
- ↑ Harold G. Coward; Karl H. Potter; K. Kunjunni Raja, eds. (1990). Encyclopedia of Indian philosophies: The philosophy of the grammarians. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. pp. 458–459. ISBN 978-81-208-0426-5.
- ↑ Richard Pischel, Subhadra Jhā (1999). A grammar of the Prākrit languages (2 ed.). Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. p. 45. ISBN 978-81-208-1680-0.
- ↑ Edwards Byles Cowell (1854). The Prākrita-prakāsa or the Prākrit grammar of Vararuci with the commentary (Manorama) of Bhāmaha. Hertford, England: Stephen Austin, Book Sellers to East India College.
- ↑ V. P. Ramachandra Dikshitar; V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar (1952). The Gupta Polity. Delhi: Motilal Barasidass. pp. 37–38. ISBN 81-208-1024-4.
- ↑ Jats the Ancient Rulers (A clan study)/The Jats,p.15
- ↑ Buddha Prakash, Studies in Ancient Indian History and Civilisation, p. 405. ,p.259