Amrita Collected Papers by A M Ghatage

SR No.: 006968
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: Kasturbhai Lalbhai Smarak Nidhi Ahmedabad
Total Pages: 530
Language: English
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Concord in Prākrit Syntax
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three merchants." tassa nam ānandassa gāhāvaissa cattāri hirannakodio nihānapauttão | Upa. 4. "The householder Ananda has his four crores of gold coins deposited." eesim coddasanham mahāsuminānam annayare mahāsumine pāsittānam | Ny. 1. 12. “Having seen four great dreams out of these fourteen great dreams." atthārasahim samanasahassehim saddhis samparivude | Ny. 5. 53. “Surrounded by eighteen thousand monks." P. dve vă tinni vā rallindivāni | DN. 2. 327. "Two or three days and nights." callunnam māsānam accayena Sn. 99. "At the lapse of four months." solasannam puggalāham Mil. 310. "Of sixteen men.'
In case of ti 'three and catu 'four' Pāli preserves two sets of forms, one for the Masculine and Neuter and the other for Feminine. But even here confusion between the two sets of forms is met with, which thus paves the way for the later development. sakhiyo tīņi janiyo | Th. 2. 518. "we three friends."
A similar lax use of the numerals is to be found in the Purānas where the form trayah is used with words of all the three genders. varsāni bhavitā trayah | tasya putraḥ samāḥ trayaḥ | bhavisyati samāḥ trayaḥ. This similarity is taken by Pargiter as pointing out that the original language of these Purānic passages was Prākrit. It is, however, more natural to suppose that this syntactical similarity between the two is a result of the popular tendencies affecting both.
Numerals over twenty are all regarded as substantives and stand in apposition to the noun which they qualify. Their only agreement pertains to the case forms. AMg. samaņenam...nāyānam egūnavīsam ajjhayaņā pannatta | Ny. 1. 5. "The ascetic has preached 19 chapters of the Nāyas." evaṁ khalu amhaṁ sami suminasatthamsi bāyālīsam suminā tīsam mahāsuminā bāvattarim savvasumiņā ņidditthā | Ny 1. 12. "Thus indeed, O Lord, in our science of dreams there are 42 dreams and 30 great dreams and so in all 72 dreams preached.” bhogasamattham jāņittā battīsāe ibbhakulabāliy āņam egadivasenam pānim genhāventi Ny. 5. 53. “Knowing him capable of enjoyment they marry him with 32 daughters of merchants on one and the same day." eesim tīsae mahāsuminānam coddasa mahāsumine päsittānam | Ny. 1. 12. "Having seen fourteen great dreams out of these 30 great dreams." cattālisäe ajjiyāsahassehim saddhiṁ samparivude Ny. 5. 53. “Surrounded by 40 thousand nuns." ekkavīsāe titthayarehim ikkhāgakulasamuppanaheim | Kap. S. 33. "By the 21 Tirthakaras born in the family of the Ikkhagas." pañcahattarie vāsheim Nir. 24. "With 75 years." JM. satthim bhattāi anasanāe chetta | Erz.