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SCHWARRIO 8ome Morma of the Absolutie in Middle Indo-Aryan
SCHWARZCHILD: Bonte Forms of the Absolute in Middle Indo-Aryan
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Tare most closely associated with Digambon and Man in the Sanders. This seems to Svetimas Apabrami the form is found to be have caused the loss of the labial type of absolutive, moribund. It cours for instance in resin but there is a possibility that it survived for a time
in the East Centre and left remontin erly in the Old Western Rajasthani texts Awadhi 16th century Awadhi has absolutives in amised by Tosator, while in the later texts of but also infinitive forms, mainly used in the the same region . the Dhol Mar Doh, oblique, indi (Padumiwa of Jayas: calai, there is no sign of it. There are only the forms inte). Dr. Salon s
in us to the origin - und -t. These are from and is now of the verbal noun ini, but they might well
despite the views of generally secepted
to o back to the Apabramba absolutive with less of
the intervale. Apart from these uncertain The Labial type of absolutive had been further enants, the labial type of absolutive, so popular weakened by the time of the Inter Apabhraman in Apabhru , has died out completely. texte by the tendency to drop the intervocali -- - This leads to confusing form such a man for CF. er and Introduction . 16 of the edition
by Vijay Munia . Binita the Stoghi Jain 1 stor Notes on the Grammar of the older (Roby, 1943). Western Raja A XLIV (1016). mgraph 131. S
e war in the Run of Tulsa, 8. K. Chat Organd Deropesent of the Be a ta Diversity will (1998). paraph , a Longus ( C outta, 1906). pp. 1011
note 2.
tilly Batern and that it does not appear in early Easter Inngong like the Ardhamadil of Apabran e the theory of its survival in the cenon: bedoe; ben Paphav, 397) and G Sarathi unlikely
(Uttar. 961) dey, JR Prakrit h ubbhe Varurul and the called "Eastern School of Art and the Maharlari of
H ipotere Grammarlansive formdan sanding of onion has bra for dra from dana (Hals A. 35. the absolutive in M adh. Hemand does not aloo Hemscand . 79), well its papai, give this form, and it does not appear to exist in which may come from prod i lly the time the acadhi of the Nevertheless such of Aabhad this and
become more form might well ha existed in spoken Migadi e rally accepted, and it is found in both Sum and it would represent an extraordinary weaken. brand Digambon Apahami. xmples are ing of the morphological termination: Al the endings of the solutive, the flix
- do development parallel to that of of butt touns (tu o ), the form of the the Western ). The final - is no doubt becond per promon, which
side by side substituted for the under the influence of the with the Eastern for tal, and has only as Ahsolutive in which is an attributed to s peared in the modern tanpages of the West on dh by the m arins, though it does not become out of its similarity to the derivatives of man general until Aabhram . This ouble absolutive >
The Abeolutive suff
e nd A probably never Yery widely used and disp u tnam by this soundchange became and Dennd entirely in favour of the simple which is pain. With extraordinary weakening is there the basis of the modern absolutive.
epdinge gave , lui changed sometimes 4. The fire indications of the sound change for
further to . The short forms -evi and are >pp are found in the team in crisis the most frequentin Apabhrama from the begin Girne Edicts have the absolutive for debito
nine, and they appear in Pruit testa influenced (13.) Laseyti (IV.). pricajid X. 4.).
by popular speech where the Apaburra endings
of the abolutive have penetrated. Absolutives in alecofpd (XIV. 6). Apart from the one finds
e i n the found in the Pascaris of either in the text or in the world of the am
Vimalasiri, in the M y further derivatives of blatives in
iniste text of the Dhar mars nam with the lablal type of similation
khya (ex. pindel III. 18), while the LII
matha hamna One only finds derivatives of the Vedic H
Altheagh -pingid (- (Gr. only), which seem to ha
p penedoubtless stages in the evolution to characteristic of the N. w. district is shown by
it, they were only intory. They are still the abaolutives in found in the con Edicts
found fairly frequently in the early Southern
Apabra h i and Manari and in the Inter
o Catumukli
Tribhuva of Shib Khresthi inscriptions, i
Symbu, but in the Inter Ciganland Sve t by soundchange
tambar testa forma in (3), which seems to live penetrated to the North
po are extremely rare, West). The endings and finem) seem to
One berally finds only - - - and in have replaced
t o fill in the crossing numbers of solutives in i Farmaco and they coexisted with the absolatives in
taining till occur in late text wuch as the
A m ersted in the Prabanthacinta which are the farms in Sanseni.
mani ( From the evidence of the Prakrite it would
84.40 of the edition in the Singhi Jain DDT s if the labialising tendeney were not con-
Series i s p.23, v. 48 fulani, var, lut
Still the ha form of the beliative is distinctly fied to the Western districts it will probably
Apabra vulgar feature that took a long time to become
ly the time of the modem vem established in the literary Innga n d it had its centre of radiation in the West Modem inter
A Weber, Desplat de Leipzig borrowing of words has obsessed the situation still
Portentative spite of these JRAS 1952 further. One finde example of labilisation in an
TR. L. Turner lot, JRR 1 WE Clarke Mal Alam ,"JAOR
p ed. A.
N y Singhi Jain XLIV (1994), pp. 81
Serm
. 100. HR Timer, The pain wakaf termin
A. A N. padhye, S hi Jaan Series e 31 Bommailement in IndoAre JRAR 1027.
bay, 1949). V. 750.