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A CRITICAL STUDY OF PAUMACARIYAN
It is often dropped in enclitics and the consonant following it is doubled:
इति-ति १५।४४, त्ति ४६।१३, इव-व ४४।१०, व्व ३१।११२
Medial
Sometimes the vowel remaining after the elision of the medial consonant is also dropped :
Syncope
पामूल (पाप्रमूल-पादमूल ४।६६), प्रायो (प्रायो-प्रागत: ११।१३)
In some cases the remaining vowel forms Sandhi:
कुम्भार (कुम्भप्रार-कुम्भकार ५।२०७), चक्काय (चक्काय-चक्रवाक २।६६) Haplology
परिव्वान (परिव्वाप्रम-परिब्राजक ४१।२७), उम्बर (उउम्बर = उदुम्बर ३३।२)
Sometimes the vowels exchange their position:विलया (वनिता ७४।२७).
Single Consonants Single consonants can be studied as Initial, Final and Medial.
Initial The only example of initial dental-nasal changing into cerebralnasal is Ņemisa = Nemişa' 55.35. Otherwise as a rule initial dentalnasal is retained. In the compounds the first member of the second word is generally treated as initial in such cases.
This tendency is against the rule of Vararuci (2.40) but it agrees with that of Hemacandra (8.1.229):___ नामावलिय १८, निच्छूढ ८८४, नेमाल ६८।६४, गंगानईए ५।१७२, गुणनिहि ७४।२३.
Initial 'ya' regularly becomes 'ja':___ जम (यम ७।४६), जइ (यदि १।१६), जूह (यूथ १७।६३), जाव (यावत् ५२।१४).
There is only one instance when initial 'ya' is dropped: अहाणुपुग्विं यथानुपूर्व.
Hemacandra calls it a tendency of Arşa=Ardhamāgadhi (8.1.245).
The initial 'bha' of root 'bhū' is regularly changed into 'ha' :हवइ = भवति ६६२१; हवन्ति - भवन्ति ४।२७ ।
