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than one such dialect (cf V. 105, 106, 108, 116 etc. ). He reduces hṛdaya to hitaaka and is in agreement with Mk and Rt in hardening all sonant mutes except in case of saggo ( = Skt. sargaḥ ). One of the important peculiarities recorded by him is the change of and n to l. He also changes ? and n optionally to n and does not change n to n. He opines that Paiśācī is like Prakrit in cases other than those recorded by him.
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56. Quite different is the treatment of Paiśācī by the grammarians of the Western School. Canda's information about this dialect is too meagre. He records two or three traits such as change of r and n to l and n and of the third and fourth letters of a class to the first and second letters of the same class respectively and cites some words as examples. Namisādhu' the commentator on Rudrata's Kavyalamkara, who is anterior to Hc, notes some of the important features of this dialect such as retention of dental n alone, change of d to t and retention of jñ and ñ, non-elision of intervocalic sonants and hitapaka in place of hrdaya
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He and his followers divide Paisaci into two broad divisions, i. e., Paisaci proper and Culikā Paiśācī." The latter again has two important varieties116. One of these enjoins the non-change of the third and the fourth letters of a class to the first and second while coming in the beginning and is in agreement with the Paisaci of Vr while the other enjoining the change is
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115. For the significance of Culikā' see Paiśācī Language and Literature by Dr. A. N. UPADHYE, ABORI, XXI p. 1-37. 116. See' Paiśācī and Culikā Paisacī' by GRIERSON, IA, LII, pp. 16-17.
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