Zend Avesta Part 03

SR No.: 007673
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L H Mills
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1887
Total Pages: 2618
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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VEDIC HYMNS.
sahasram râyo mādāyadhyai,
sahasrina upa no yantu vāgåh. That the final o instead of as is treated as a short syllable we saw before, and in I. 133, 6, we observed that it was liable to synizesis. We see the same in
I, 175,6. māyā svāpo na trishyāte băbhātha. V, 61, 16. ā yāgñiyâsă văvrittăna.
The pragrihya î of the dual is known in the Veda to be liable in certain cases to Sandhi. If we extend this licence beyond the limits recognised by the Prátisåkhya, we might scan
VI, 52, 14. ubhē rodasy apām napāk ka manma, or we might shorten the î before the a, and admitting synizesis, scan:
ubhe rõdăsi àpām năpāk kā mānmā. In III, 6, 10, we must either admit Sandhi between prakî and adhvaréva, or contract the first two syllables of adhvaréva.
The o and e of vocatives before vowels, when changed into av or aly), are liable to synizesis:
IV, 48, 1. vãyáv a kandrēnă răthēnā (Anushtubh, c.) IV, 1, 2. să bhrātărām várùnăm ägna à văvritsvā.
The termination avah also, before vowels, seems to count as one syllable in V, 52, 14, divo vā dhrishnava ogăsā, which would render Professor Bollensen's correction (Orient und Occident, vol. ii, p. 480), dhrishnúogasâ, unnecessary.
Like ava and iva, we find aya and iya, too, in several words liable to be contracted in pronunciation; e.g. vayam, VI, 23, 5; ayam, I, 177, 4; iyam, VII, 66, 82; I, 186, 11 (unless we read vossme); X, 129, 6. Professor Bollensen's proposal to change iyam to îm, and ayam to âm (Orient und Occident, vol. ii, p. 461), would only cause obscurity, without any adequate gain, while other words would by a similar suppression of vowels or consonants become simply irrecognisable. In I, 169, 6, for instance, ádha has to be
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