एतत् पृष्ठम् अपरिष्कृतम् अस्ति
36 SANSKRIT, PRAKKIT, AND APABHRANQIA
unknown, while in the latter region vernacular poetry appears to have been practised in the eleventh century. Literary evidence of compositions in the vernaculars is fragmentary, but at least from the twelfth century there was a Hindi literature, from the thirteenth one in Marathi, and probably enough still earlier dates may be assigned to the adaptation of vernaculars to literary uses. 1
1 For Bengal see Dinesh Chandra Sen, Hist, of Bengal Lang, and Lit, (1911) and S. K. Chatterji, 1. 129 ff.
