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of the late Mss. If thus the Māhāraştri elemeuts in the language of Vhm (and Vh.) are later imported features, the designation 'Archaic Jain Māhāraştri' will be inappropriate. On the otherhand, here we have in Vhm. a Svetāmbara work whose Prakrit has Sauraseni phonological elements comparable to what we find in the Prakrit of Digambara works. But there is one significant difference : We find also many forms which do not voice the unvoiced intervocalic stop. It seems that we may have to think of 'Archaic Jain Prakrit' or 'Early Jain Prakrit' as a better designation for the language of the works like Vh. and Vhm.
Sound Change
Besides the varying treatment of the intervocalie stop noted above, the following few cases are notable. Vowels
पेट (Sk. पीठ) 63:15 ; तोण (Sk. तूण) 10.11 पिदि and पिदु ; भाति and भाउग. मीणगा (Sk. मेनका) 100.12; सोन्म (Sk शुभ्र) 63.13 कुलाहल (Sk. कोलाहल) 172.19, वासहर (Sk. वर्षधर) 69.12 उवगूढा and ओगूदती (Sk. उपगूढा) 13.6-7,
सूसर (Sk. सुस्वर) 42.4; अत्तिया (Sk. आत्मजा) 5.18 Loss of the initial vowel
वस्थित (Sk. अवस्थित 4.4; वडेसत (Sk. अवतंसक); वरण्हे (Sk. अपराहने) 125.16. वलंबमाणी (Sk. अवलंबमाना) 38.12
दाणि (Sk. इदानीम्) 3.14; रथ (M. एस्थ=Sk. अत्र) Consonants
द (usually prenasal) changed to म् कामिंजल (M. काविजल, Sk. कापिंजल) 38.16 रामण (Sk रावण) 39.27; सोमाग (M. सोवाण, Sk. सोपान) 29.16-17%B 55.10 समण (Sk. श्रवण) 97.20; सामण (Sk. श्रावण) 263.2,8; संभम
-सामिणो (Sk. स भव-स्वामिनः) 19.19; तडमित (Sk ताण्डवित) 25.25 We fiad intervocali c r changed to 1 in
कुलली (Sk. कुररी) 61.9; कलुण (Sk. करुण) 61.103
विप्फुलिंद (=Sk. विस्फुरत् ) 60.23; सवदालिद (Sk. भवदारित) 62.4 and probably पलिलंभ (Sk. परिरभ ) 59.i.
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