Some Marathi Inscriptions, A. D. 1060–1300

When Jules Bloch wrote his pioneer work La formation de la langue marathe 40 years ago, there were fewer specimens of early Marathi literature available than to-day. The Bhavārtha-dīpikā of Jñānadeva (A.D. 1296) was well-known, but R. G. Panse–s index of words contained in that work was not to appear until 1953 in his Linguistic peculiarities of Jñāneśvarī . The works of Mukundarāja (c. 1190) had often been published, but had undergone modernization and the works of the Mānabhāva or Mahānubhavā sect written in various ciphers largely remained unpublished. Much has been written on these sources since by Marathi scholars, but in Marathi and so not readily accessible to the West

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