apabhraṃśa

E. apa from, bhraṃśa to fall, and ac affix; also apabhraṃsa.

whether the form of the word be at variance with the rules

of Sanskṛt grammar, or its sense not a Sanskṛtic one;

e. g. Kumārila in his Mīmānsā Vārttika: yathā sādhvanurūpatvā-

tpramādāśaktijeṣvapi . jāyate vācakabhrāntistathaiva mlecchabhāṣite ..

śabdāpabhraṃśavadeva gauṇabhrāntyādiprayoganimittā arthāpabhraṃśā bha-

vanti; or the same: deśabhāṣāpabhraṃśapadāni hi viplutibhūyi-

ṣṭhāni na śakyante vivektum. ³ The name of the lowest

class of the Prākṛt dialects; according to some the same

as the Paisāchī dialect, according to others different from

the latter and inferior to it; the division of the Prākṛt

dialect being either: the Bhāṣā (comprising the Prākṛt

proper or the Māhārāṣtrī, the Śaurasenī, Māgadhī, Ardha-

māgadhī and the southern dialects), the Vibhāṣā (compris-

ing the Śākārī, Chāṇḍālī, Śābarī, Ābhīrī, Drāvidī and

Odrī) and the Apabhranśa or Paisāchī (comprising the pro-

vincial dialects as the Gurjarātī, Kārnatī &c.); or the Prā-

kṛt proper, the Śaurasenī, the Māgadhī (with the Ardhamā-

gadhī and the other dialects named before), the Paisāchī,

and the Apabhranśa, the latter then being especially ap-

propriated to the language of the Ābhīra and contiguous

peoples and excluded from poetry where the other dia-

lects may occur. See Lassen's Institutiones Linguae Pra-

criticae, and compare the following remark of Bharatasena

on a verse of the Bhaṭṭikāvya where several words are

Sanskṛt as well as Prākṛt: kāvyaṃ saṃskṛtaprākṛtāpabhraṃśabhedā-

ttrividham . prākṛto'pi saṃskṛtabhavaḥ saṃskṛtasamo deśī cetya-

nekavidhaḥ . atra deśisaṃskṛtabhavayoḥ prākṛtayorapabhraṃśasya cā-

sādhuśabdatvenādharmajanakatvāt . upakrānte saṃskṛte bandhe samāveśā-

saṃbhavācca . mahākavirbhartṛharirasāmarthyaṃ bodhayañchabdasamāyāḥ prā-

kṛtabhāṣāyāḥ saṃskṛtabandhe samāveśaṃ darśayati &c. According to

several comm. on the Amarak. the word may be written

also apabhraṃsa; but this reading is rejected as wrong by Rā-

yamukuṭa: dantyo'pītyeke . tadasat . sransu bhransu adhaḥpatane .

ityasya ghañi rūpaṃ na dṛśyata iti bhāṣyādāvuktatvāt.--E. bhraṃś

with apa, kṛt aff. ghañ.

2. A bad fall. E. apa and bhraṃśa (bhraṃś, kṛt aff. ac).

rect language, Rājat. 5, 205.

m. (-śaḥ) Ungrammatical language.

E. apa from, bhraṃśa to fall, and
ac affix; also apabhraṃsa.

1) Herabfall TRIK. 3, 3, 425. H. an. 4, 310. MED. ś. 31. anapabhraṃśa PAÑCAV. BR. 17, 4. in Ind. St. I, 34, N. atyārūḍhirbhavati mahatāmapyapabhraṃsaniṣṭhā v. l. zu ŚĀK. 78.

— 2) falsche, von der Grammatik abweichende Sprache AK. 1, 1, 5, 2. TRIK. H. an. 4, 309. MED.

— 3) N. einer bes. Sprache TRIK. H. an. MED. Wird dem Prākṛt entgegengesetzt und in 4 Unterdialecte getheilt, Sch. der MṚCCH. bei STENZLER, S. V. Vgl. LASSEN, Institt. 10. fgg. LIA. II, 1150. Ind. St. II, 408.

1) füge Sturz, Fall und TS. 1, 5, 1, 2 (= dehapāta Schol.). WEBER, Nakṣ. 2, 387. HARIV. 1014 hinzu.

— 2) RĀJA-TAR. 5, 205. ekaikasya hi śabdasya bahavo 'pabhraṃśāḥ falsche Formen PAT. in MAHĀBH. 22.

— 3) KATHĀS. 55,127. KĀVYĀD.1,32. Verz. d. Oxf. H. 181,a, No. 412. 214,a, No. 509. WASSILJEW 226. 267. Davon nom. abstr. °tā f.: śāstreṣu saṃskṛtādanyadaprabhraṃśatayoditam KĀVYĀD. 1, 36. MUIR, ST. 2, 57.

— 1) Herabfall , Sturz.

— 2) falsche sprachliche Form.

— 3) ein best. gering geachteter Dialect. Dazu Nom.abstr. °tā f.