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vowels, elision of declensional terminations, and irregularity of gender and endings are admissible especially for the sake of metrical advantage. Pleonastic affix.dā in masculine and neuter genders, -ţi in feminine only and -du in all genders are allowed.
Sub-vidhi :- In the nom. and acc. sings generally the suffix u is added and sometimes the addition of ho and i in case of pleonastic ka are also seen. In nom. mas. sing. the said u is replaced by o; ho is the suffix in nom. pl.; e is the suffix of the inst. sing. and ena if words end in i or u. Instr. pl. and loc. pl. have him as their suffix but ehim in case of words ending in i and u in inst. p). only. The suffix of abl. sing. is he and ho and those of abl. pl. are ham and hum. Loc. sing. ends in e and gen. sing. in āho, āha, asu, āham and āhum. The nom, and acc. sings. of tad and adas have eho and ehu while the nom. sing. of etad is either je, se or esa. Yuşmad becomes tuham in nom. sing. and tumhe in nom. pl.; the word asmad becomes hamu or amhe in nom. pl.
Tin-vidhi :- Only parasmaipada is allowed in Ap. First person pl. becomes hum. The verbs kr, vad, grah become kar, bolla, gunha respectively.
Mk as well as Rt derive Vrācada from Nāgara and call it the dialect of Sindhu region. Mk gives the following peculiarities of Vrācada :
ş and s become s'; y is prefixed to c and ;. The original ? and rare retained in words excepting bhrtya and other words specified. Initial t, d become t, d respectively.
khadga > khandu and bhū>bho provided pra and the like are not prefixed to it. Vr's and brū become vah and bro respectively. As would appear from above,
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