Ang Sahitya Manan aur Mimansa

SR No.: 004256
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sagarmal Jain, Suresh Sisodiya
Publisher: Agam Ahimsa Samta Evam Prakrit Samsthan
Publication Year: 2002
Total Pages: 338
Language: Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 24 MB

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nothing but the anology with guha, so kuhara becomes guhara, the k of the word kiráta becomes cdue to the infuence of ithe palatal vowel related with kand thus the word cilāya is formed.
In prakrit no conjuct consonant is used in initial position of a word. So even in assimilation of a conjunct with k, only the single consonants kor kh remain, eg. krama , kama (Nā 1.1.159, 178; 44.14; Pan 4.5), krita, kiya (A.8.21,22,23 : Sū2.165; Th. 9.62; Sam 21.1; Bh 9.177), Similarly, kiyakada or kiyagada, Şanskrit equivalent kritakrta can be found.
Sometimes the intervocalic k becomes elided, sometimes becomes gand sometimes remains unchanged. Hemacandra while formulating the sutra for Mahārāştri Prakrit (8.1.177) that intervocalic k, g, c, j, t, d, p, yand v are optionaly elided. This option shows the existence of those intervocalic consonants if these consonants suit for remain unchanged. In the Ardhamagadhi āy-śrutiâ has an important place, though it is also regular in Maharaşträ. kbecoming gis a regular feature of Ardhamāgadhi. It is nothing but the change of an unvoiced consonant to the voiced one. These features are very regular and popular in the Amga literature. .
In the same way the other mutes undergo changes in Ardhamagadhi as well as the language of Amga canons. All these phonetic changes in Ardhamågadhi have nothing remarkable differences from that of Mahāraştri. So the features regarding elision or change of Sanskrit mutes in Maharastri are almost same in the language of the Amga canonical texts. So like Maharaştri, in the canonical texts too, the changes of kh, gh, th, dh, bh into his quile regular. ch and jh remain unchanged, th and dh being intervocalic become dh in most of the cases. Some exampies are as follows —
kh-nakha (Bh 5.53, Nā 1.4.24. Uv. 2.21, 28; Pan 10.18), elision of kh-maukhara, mohara (Th. 10.137. Pan 10.7), mekhala > mehalá (Bh. 12.165; Na 1.16.185, pan. 4.4; 10.14, 15 etc.) śākha > śäha (A-cu 1.96) ghế megha (Nā. 1.5.12, 13; Pan 4.7), likewise meghamkara, (Th. 8.100.1), meghamāliņi (Th 8.100.1) elision of gh-megha, meha (Bh. 10.65). In most of the cases th becomes h rather than becoming unchanged. eg. maithuna> mehuna (Sú 1.3.68, Sam 5.2, 6; Bh 1.286,384 etc), in some cases instead of