The Pathway of Roses - Classic Reprint Author:Christian Larson PREFACE. — The present Grammar is chiefly based on KeSava's Sabdamanidarpana. The terminology of this his Grammar is simple, and fit for the three dialects of Kannada. At the same time it will be interesting to learo the general way of an ancient native scholar's teaching Kannada grammar. — In Kcsavu's age most of the rules of Kannada grammar were... more » fixod. That bofore him thero had boon grammarians who had not deserved that name, seems to follow from his quoting a part of a Kanda verse that is fully quoted in the Sabdanulnsana (under its sutra 4C9), from which wc translato it as follows - 1 Remain, O daughter! Could the unprofitable grammarian (sushkavaiyakarana), tho unprofitable sophist and the rustic have as (thoir) subjoct mattor the gem of poetical composition which is the subject matter of the assemblage of very clever poets?'
Some specific statomonts of Keilava concerning bis predecessors or contemporaries are the following-
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