BOOK SUMMARY OF NARADA PURANA PT. 4 (AITM VOL. 18):ANCIENT INDIAN TRADITION AND
MYTHOLOGY (VOL. 18)
Apabhramsa forms the previous stage of modern Indo-Aryan languages like
Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali etc., its study is essential not only for
its literature but also for the formation of modern Indian languages. The
present volume is a chrono-regional study of nearly all the edited
Apabhramsa texts available. The Apabhramsa texts were classified according
to the place of their composition and the linguistic data was arranged in a
chronological sequence and thus the space-time context of each forms was
determined. After illuminating the