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In Search of the Original Ardhamāgadhi
K.R. Chandra (43.3; 51.17) sammuti (51.10), mutiyā (Instr. Sing., 47.12) Such usages are found in the Ashokan inscriptions also, e.g., vedaniyamute (= vedanīyamataḥ), gulumute (= gurumatah) in the Kālasi inscription No.13; mukhamute (= mukhyamatah) in the Shāhabazagadhi and Mānaseharā inscription No.13, and mute (= mataḥ) in Kālasi inscription No.6.
It is obvious from these examples that the usage mute was prevalent for the word matah, and hence it came into use in the Pāli, and the archaic Ardhamāgadhi Prakrit also.. (C) The Case Termination ave' = ãe' of Dative Singular :
The dative singular termination rãe'for words ending in a'is very popular in the Ardhamāgadhī, as for instance, in taṁ se ahitae (Acā. 1.1.2.13). Pischel (361, 364) has quoted many examples of this usage from the Agama texts. The predecessor of this case termination is 'āye' and it is to be found in the Ashokan inscriptions, too (Mehendale, p.28), e.g., imaye athaye, (= asmai arthāya) in Dhaulī, 5.7, and imāye dhammānusathiye (asmai dharmanusistyai) in Dhaulī, 3.2. The form athaye is found in the Shāhabāzagadhi and Mānaseharā, too. It is not found in the central, western and southern regions. This very case termination āye'changes to e' in the north-western region during the later period, but in the rest of the regions the forms with aya'are found later on (Mehendale, p.283). Since no inscriptions of the later period are found from the eastern region, examples of that region cannot be given. (D) Archaic forms of Imperative III. plu. (additional matter post Hindi Edn.) Ācā 2.1.357 (texual reading is paribhāeha but the variant is) Pari(yā ?) bhāedha-Mss. Khe, Jai. sunedha me -Isibhā. 26.1 (E) The Use of the Present Pariticiple Affix-mina’in the place of ‘mānal:
Sometimes the use of the Present Participle Affix '-mina’ is found in the place of -māna’in the Ardhamāgadhi Agama
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