Samdesarasaka of Abdala Rahamana

SR No.: 001433
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Abdul Rahman
Publisher: Prakrit Granth Parishad
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 124
Language: English, Gujarati, Prakrit, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English & Literature
File Size: 6 MB

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exterme nature is peculiarly Apabhramsa. We find this construction in, e. g., Hemacandra's illustrative stanzas, in the Paramappapayāsu of Joindu. The idiom is current even in the Modern languages. The three cases occurring in the SR. are : न धरणउ जाइ 71a, कहणु न जाइ 81a and font.... FEU 218b.
There appears a decided bias in favour of using the pret. part. in impersonal construction. Note 51955 Teufq3 78a, 5 1 09d, chifriis B 142b, Feicfi 155 144b, Hrafia FAB 1440, TATE 315773 145d, Tej Thurs 153 146a, HË HITE3 215b, etc. It is also to be noted that excepting the first case (in a Dohā), all the other cases have the instr. in ०इहिं.
Here we can say that two steps intervene between the type of usage attested here and the one in the modern vernaculars which has shed the passive sense and serves to express the past directly. Thus, firstly if for expressions like say RA afs3 'by the goose was climbed' 'the climbing was done by the goose', those like to (instr.) afss (cf. 51955 Eufa3) get current and then secondly, if as a result of the phonetic development of RA into 4 (i. e. endingless instr.) by the reduction of the final f, our expression takes the form (instr.) 2153 (so common in Dingal, etc.), then the natural confusion of the
(instr.) with the homophonous nom./acc. would give us without any difficulty the modern active expression to OST 'the goose climbed' “the goose did the climbing”.
Thus, in the end the old passive was lost from the pret. And eventually it met the same fate in the present, where it developed a potential (and later on a mild imperative) sense. Some indications as to this are supplied by zjes for free 'the cloth can be dyed again', अंगु अभिगियइ 'the body can be annointed', दविणु पुणु भिट्टियइ 'riches can be won back and foot afgu 'how (it) can be turned', all occurring in 101.
An important result of this tendency was the development of a new passive which probably made the first beginning by the pret.