मल्लपुराण (ज्येष्ठिमल्ल - प्राचीन भारतीय मल्लविद्या, अखाड़ा व्यायाम व कुश्ती महाग्रन्थ)

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The following words also suggest that they are taken up from the local
dialect and used in Sanskrit as is clear from the statement Kathitā laukikaiḥ
śabdaistathoktā Malla Bhāṣayā.
lāta VI.1.
Tākaṇa VI.3.5.
Farakaṇe VI.5.
Khaṇḍa IX.51.
Melayitvā XII.30.
Muhuḍakena XVI.4.
Chaḍakī XVII.33.
Dhokara XVII.39.
lāga VI.1.5, IX. 11, X, 11 ff.
utthāpaṇā VI.3.
Ākhaḍhaka VI.15.
Valana IX.11.
Goṇitaka XI.8.
Cāvayitvā XII.30.
Harita XVII.6.
Karaḍakī XVII.33.
Pariṇāma Prada IX.38.
Sphutaṁ Hāra XV.4.
Use of word Hingu in Feminine gender. IX.47.
These words are seen in Gujarati language and hence the inference could
be drawn that the Laukika Śabda and Mallabhāṣā is the Gujarati language in
its mediaeval form. This inference could be strengthened by the consideration
of the authorship. All these evidences lead one to suggest that this work falls
in the period of the mediaeval Gujarati and hence may be ascribed to a period
after 13th century A.D. This inference could be supported by a close study
of the language of the Jain Prabhandhas composed in mediaeval Gujarat.
Another interesting point for fixing the chronology can be inferred from
the strong bias of Kṛṣṇa Bhakti. The religious history of Gujarat may lend
some light to this problem. The Māhatmya of Bhāgavata purāṇa mentions
Gujarat as the place where Bhakti became weak.¹ This remark suggests that
in Gujarat Vaisnavism was not very strong and this fact is supported by the
historical evidence that the Chaulukya rulers were Śaivaites, and the brāhmins
here were the supporters of Śaivism. The study of the Chaulukya temples also
suggest that most of the Hindu temples are Śaiva; but the Vaiṣṇava temples
are very few.
¹ Bhāgavata, Ch. I, 47, 48.