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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INTRODUCTION TO ARDHA-MĀGADHI
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उपानही वाहणाओ shoes ; हृदक हरए pond ; दीर्घ=दीहर long ; महाराष्ट्र=मरहट्ठ Maratha country.
Metathesis is found in case of two successive sounds mostly of the cerebral class as n or r which are difficult to pronounce or such conjuncts as hr where the two sounds in the order always tend to replace each other. 127 ANUSVĀRA AND LONG VOWELS ALTERNATE
(i) Anusvara replaces a long vowel : वीसावीसं twenty; तीसातीसं thirty; तिरिया=तिरियं animal; सम्मा = सम्मं properly; अट्ठा=अटुं for ; मुसा=मुसं false; हेठा हेठं down.
(i) Long vowel replaces Anusvara : संदंश=संडास pincers; शक्यं=सक्का possible ; इथिं=इत्थी woman.
(iii) The finals of many adverbs are nasalised : इह= इहं here ; पभिइपभिई etc.; उवरि-उवरि above; बहिः=बाहिं outside ; मुहुः-मुहुं again and again.
The alternance is old (cf. Vedic itthā, ittham). The syllablic value of a long and a nasalised vowel is the same which helps the interchange. Moreover all long vowels tend to become nasalised because of the difficulty of keeping the soft palate raised for a long time and all final vowels tend to become long. Pāṇini notes the fact that final short vowels a, i and u were nasalised. In case of adverbs analogy may be partly responsible for the presence of the anusvāra.
128 When the semi-vowels & and a become the vowels इ and उ the change is called संप्रसारण.
(i) = इ : अभ्यंतर=अभितर inside ; प्रत्यनीक-पडिणीय inimical; व्यतिक्रान्त=वीइकंत gone over.
(ii) क् = उ : त्वरितं = तुरियं quickly; त्वम्=तुमे you ; स्वप्न सुविण dream ; स्वस्तिक-सोत्थिय a kind of figure; श्वपाक-सोवाग low caste man.
(iii) अय् =ए: कथयति कहइ tells ; नयतिनेइ leads; लयन लेण cave; त्रयदश-तेरस thirteen..