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NOTES: I 248-269
264. ea is regarded in this grammar as a con. sonant and so the mention of a comes after all letters of alphabet. Thus fg becomes fa by this rule.
267-271. These rules speak of the dropping of a whole syllable.
269. महण्णवसमा सहिआ is महार्णवसमाः सहृदयाः जाला ते, etc. - The whole verse is:
ताला जायन्ति गुणा जाला ते सहिअएहि घेप्पन्ति । रविकिरणाणुग्गहिआईं होन्ति कमलाइँ कमलाई ॥ (तत्र जायन्ते गुणाः यत्र ते सहृदयैः गृह्यन्ते । रविकिरणानुगृहीतानि भवन्ति कमलानि कमलानि ॥ ) निसमणप्पिअहिअस्स stands for निशमनार्पितहृदयस्य.
SYNOPSIS OF THE FIRST PADA. 1-4. General and introductory.
5-10. Rules of Sandhi.
11-25. Rules about words ending in consonants.
26-30, Rules about
. 31-36. Rules adout the gender of words.
37. About faeri.
38-43. Miscellaneous.
44-175. Changes in vowels.
177-271. Changes in consonant.
II.
This Pada treats of the changes that conjunct consonants undergo in Prakrit. The fundamental rules about the changes of conjuncts are: (a) Conjuncts with dissimilar members, e. g.,,,, etc., undergo a process of assimilation, i. e. one of the members assimilates the other. The grammarian however says that one member
