Introduction to Ardhamagadhi

SR No.: 006965
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A M Ghatage
Publisher: School & College Book Stall
Publication Year: 1941
Total Pages: 268
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 14 MB

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MEDIAL CONSONANTS
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40 In a few cases the dental is not cerebralised in spite of the presence of the r र sound. प्रतिज्ञापइण्णा Vow%3; प्रतिष्ठान = पइट्ठाण name of a city; प्रतिष्ठित = पइट्ठिय established; प्रतिदिनं = पइदिणं every day; संप्रति = संपइ at present ; प्रति = 95 towards.
Except in case of the preposition prati the cases are due to dissimilation, the presence of a cerebral preventing the rise of another. This can be well seen in such cases as dah- but daddha, das- but dattha, and to a certain extent the contention of Wackernagel is justified though his illustration is not to the point.
41 OPENING OF STOPS
All indications show that the contact of the Indo-Aryan stops was a feeble one and in favourable circumstances it is lost giving rise to a fricative or a mere voiced glottal fricative (h). Sanskrit and the Prākrit languages lack the unvoiced fricatives except the sibilants and therefore whenever a stop becomes a fricative it is necessarily voiced at the same time. Thus -p- and -b- become -v-, and the same applies to all the following cases. (a) Opening of mutes
(i) Cerebrals : ट=ल : स्फटिक = फलिह crystal; पिटक = पिलाग basket ; करित्र कलित्त an armour; ठह: कुठार = कुहाड
axe; पिठर = पिहड a jar; ड=लवगेडक = गवेलग ram; गुड = गुल . raw sugar; निगड = निगल fetter ; एडक =एलग ram; गरुड गरुल eagle; षडर छलंस having six corners; षोडश = सोलस sixteen; आपीड = आविल crest; तटाक=तलाग pond; क्रीडन =कीलण sport; ताड् = ताल to beat; पीडा = पीला trouble.
(ii) dentals : त ल : असित = असिल name of a sage; सातवाहन = सालिवाहन title of the Andhra kings.
Doubtful is the case of salilā = Pāli saritā, which may be under the influence of salila water '.
दल : कदंब = कलंब a kind of tree; नोल्लइ = नुदति (nudati) pushes; प्रदपियात = पलीवेइ enkindles; द्वादश =दुवालस twelve ;