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An Unassimilated Group in Apabhramsa
The sandhis 81-92 are based on the Mss. K. A. P. (=Alsdorf B.) B. (=Alsdorf A) and S. (=Alsdorf C). Here also the relation between the first three K. A. P. remains the same. Out of 72 cases K. keeps these sounds for 56 times, P. in none and A. agrees with K. in 10 cases in having them : K. A. nrva P. niva 81. 12. 1. 84. 2. 3.; K. A. prangani P. pangane 90. 4. 13; 92. 9. 8. K. priu A. prya P. piya 81. 12. 2. 82. 1. 11; 91. 13. 11; K. A. mrgāyanahu P. migāyaṇaho 82. 8. 10; K. A. vrndu P. vindu 81. 18. 3. K. A. samprāiu P. sampaiu 86. 1. 25. In one case 81. 1. 11. K. niva A. nrva, it has r against K. In 88. 24. 13. the reading of P. remains doubtful, and with the express statement of Alsdorf we may regard it as not having the sound r in mrga. B. has 24 cases of retaining these sounds and S. has 72 cases of ļ and r-groups, thus 16 times more than K. : S. priya K. tiya 89. 13. 5. S. trya K. tiya 91. 6. 6. S. nrva K. niva 81. 1. 11; 88. 2. 15; 88. 9. 12; 89. 18. 8; 90. 2. 6; 90. 12. 5; 91. 9. 10; 92. 3. 3; 90. 6. 15; S. priya K. piya; S. mrga K. miga 88. 23. 15; 88. 23. 17; 91. 2. 4; 92. 1. 16; S. vraya K. vaya 92. 14. 14. S. srya K. siyā 90. 3. 7. and one case in which K. has the sound as against S. Thus S. agrees almost always with K. in having them and shows them in addition in many cases. B.'s agreement with any other Ms. is not obvious.
For the last portion of sandhis 93-102 the Mss. are again K. A. P. as in volume two and their interrelation remains the same. K. has 17 cases and A. has 15 cases and agrees with K. in 101. 3. 18. K. A. P. prāna which is doubtful. Otherwise P. has no case of such sounds. This is all the more remarkable when we find K. and A. agreeing in volume two in 10 cases and in Harivaņģa in 10 more cases.
Our results about the Mss. may be thus summarised :
K. no date, available for the whole text, has 414 cases with and 34 cases without these sounds.
G. date 1518 A.D. for ādipurāņa has 155 cases with and 2 without the sounds.
M. date 1826 A.D. for adipurāna, no case with the sounds. Ba. date 1602 A.D. for ādi. no case. Pa. no date, for 28 sandhis, no case.
A. date 1558 A.D. for Uttarapurāna, cases 37 with and 254 without the sounds.