A History of Sanskrit Literature c28.s2.20

c28.s2.20

In 972 Dhanapāla wrote for his sister Sundarī the *Pāiyalacchī* (*Prākṛtalakṣmī*) *Nāmamālā*,³ a Prākrit dictionary which was used by Hemacandra in producing his *Deçīnāmamālā* ⁴ with commentary, in which he seeks to give Deçī words, that is, terms neither identic with Sanskrit (*tatsama*) nor derived thence by ordinary processes (*tadbhava*). Some of these words are referable to Sanskrit, but most are not, and their provenance is still extremely uncertain.⁵