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GRAMMAR
14. ब् and व्. Many Ap. Mss. do not distinguish बू and व्. They write always व् for both. Unlike these, the
Mss. of the SR. write ब् and c fairly correctly. Only in sundry cases they are confused with each other, as: णिवड (= णिविड = निबिड) 47c& etc., विउणउ (== बिउणउ = द्विगुणकम् ) 136b, वलाहय (= बलाय = बलाहक) 1600, वाह (= बाह = बाष्प) 95b and 109b, वोलंत (= बल्लंत i. e. अब्रवीत् ) 950, पुप्फंवर (= पुष्पंबर = पुष्पाम्बर) 202b, Pk. वरहिणी (= बरहिणी = बर्हिणी) and वरह (= वरह = बर्ह) 213a; बलियडय (= वलियडय) 80b, बाउलिय (= वाउलिय = व्याकुलिता) 94b. For वश्रुति, म् >y and elision of an intervocalic c see S$ 30, 33.
II Sound-Changes $ 15. Apabhraṁśa phonology is non-existent as an independent entity. It is fundamentally identical with the Pk. phonology. Only a few alterations are peculiar to Ap. or figure in it with a strikingly greater prominence and as such they merit special consideration. Some of these have been already anticipated in the section on Orthography. In the following treatment changes that have been caused under the stress of metre are dealt with first under a separate caption.
Prosodic Alterations $ 16. A light syllable is made heavy
(a) by lengthening : आलंकियउ (= अलं == अलंकृत enlarged) 48d, पावासुय (= पवा from + /वस्) 102c, 184a, पावास (=प = प्रवास) 118e, साहार (= स = सहकार) 134d, पासाहण (= पसा = प्रसाधन) 1790, संगाइ (= संगइ i. e. संगेन) 1560 (at the end of a Doha-pāda), कुणाइ (= कुणइ = क्वणति) 217b (at the end of a Paddhadi-pada); हीय (= हिय = हृत) 1610, लीअय (= लि° i. e. लात) 1760, कीयय (= कि = कृत enlarged) 199d, अग्गीहर (= अग्गि = अमिगृह) 1940;
(b) by gemination of a simple consonant (i) either in the seam of compounds : णवम्भिस (= णवभिस = नव-बिस) 171a, चिरग्गय (= चिरगय= चिरगत) 181, सब्भय (= सभय) 2080, परव्वस (= परवंस = प्ररवश-) 2178, Pk, दलब्बहल (so to be read metri causa for the textual दलबहल) 1la, (ii) or in the body of the word (confined -mostly to continuants like nasals, sibilants, liquids): तमाल ( = तमाल) .660, गंमिजद (ग°).64d, गम्मियइ (गमि) 117f, गम्मियउ (= गमि) 67d,
1 The Prakritised passages of the Se mostly in Varşavrttas and the section.
called वनस्पतिनामानि (St.55-63) have been partially left out of consideration
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