Shadavashyaka Banav Bodh Vrutti

SR No.: 003394
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Prabodh Bechardas Pandit
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Publication Year: 1976
Total Pages: 372
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 11 MB

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MORPHOLOGY
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In stray variae lectiones in our text we get the contraction -u < -aum (ghanum), which in MG develops as a regular termination for n. At the same time, we get a stray v. 1.-0 <-au (ladho), which later develops as a regular termination for m. Thus the process of morphological distinction is already at work in our text. Of the other NIA languages, Bhadarwāhi n. is strikingly similar to Gujarati n. (Varma, Indian Linguistics vol I part ii Neuter gender in Bhadarwāhi'); while Konkani and Marathi n. differ in terminations.
Case
4.17. Nominal flexion has disintegrated and given place to periphrastic declension and postpositions. Merging of one case into another from early MIA period has hastened this process. In Ap stage, a confusion in case terminations is already prominent. Thus, nom. and acc. sg. have -a, -u; inst. and loc. sg. have -i, -ihi; the vagaries of marking the nasal in Ap orthography further confuse inst. sg. -i with pl. -im.
This condition necessitates the use of postpositions to indicate the kārakas. In OG we find increased use of postpositions, but at the same time, orthographic tradition of Ap is strongly maintained by parallel use of case terminations Often we get both at the same time, which indicates that postpositions, in many cases, were meaningless appendages. a-stems and i-stems as well as a-stems have lost flexion in majority of cases. Following are the instances, mainly of the a-stems where the bare stem is used: -
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