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Amrita
mrgavai 1 mrgāyanu 2 1 1 mrgāvai 5 mrgi 1 vrnda 2
1 1 1 srya 12 - 3 1 3 (3) Words with inorganic r :
G. A. Bu. nipriha 1 prāě(?) 1 prāyanti 1 bruha 1
S.
vrahiu
1
vrāsu 1
Traces of such forms are rare in other Apabhramsa works. But it will be incorrect to say that they are confined to the Mahāpurāņa only. In the Kathākośa of Śrīcandra a few forms with r (particularly nrva) are noted. This author is placed in the 11th century. The Apabhramśa verses in Hemacandra's Chandonuśāsana also supply us with a few words of this type : krva (6. 116), cakru (7. 3) trutti (6. 32), drahi (6. 60), druo (7. 37) dhruvu (6. 121; 6. 129; 7. 57) priya (6. 18; 6. 25; 6. 38; 6. 46; 6. 82; 6. 127) prānahara (6. 118) vandri (6. 34). Jacobi has already pointed out that these Apabhraṁsa verses are the compositions of Hemacandra himself and not quotations from earlier works as is the case with his grammar. This is not wholly true. A few of them are quotations and recur in his grammar, as the verse cüdullao cunni hoisai (Ch. 6. 119 = Gr. 4. 395). Moreover, to ascertain the range of such words they are of importance, as it is scarcely possible that Hemacandra would have kept them even in his own compositions if he had not found them in current literature. In this sense they differ from his stanzas in the Kumārapālacarita where they are expressly written for illustrating the rules of his grammar and as such may distort the facts of the natural language by overemphasis. In this metrical treatise he has no such need to change the phonology of the language, particularly when these groups are metrically harmless, i.e. make no difference by their position.