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dropping of medial consonants has gone high, indeed up to 30% to 35% and the voicing of unvoiced consonants is near about 17%. Dental nasal n- is initially cerebralised into n- up to 100% and medially -n- into -n- up to 75%. This tendency of cerebralisation of -n- into -n- is traced in the South and West. And in the later centuries it spreads to other regions of India 10.
5. Phonological changes in the Isibhästyäiri
Isibhāsiyaim" is regarded as one of the oldest of the Ardhamāgadhi texts along with the Acaränga, the Sütrakṛtänga, the Uttaradhyayana and the Daśavaikälika. The state of phonological changes in this work is quite different from that encountered in other older Jaina canonical texts in the Ardhamägadhi. An analysis of the data from some select chapters No. 1, 2, 3, 5, 11, 29 and 31 reveals that an average of dropping, voicing. unvoicing, and retention is 11 to 35%, 7 to 22% and 45 to 81% respectively. The chapter-wise analysis is as follows:
chs
D
V
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12
61
Total 100
01
chs
D
V
R
01
222
27
12
61
02
05
03
37
45
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02
The percentage of phonological changes in these chapters is as follows:
29 31 Average
11
07
81
03
27
32
87
146
32
68
03
18
22
60
05
07
01
19
27
00
100
05
27
04
69
11
22
02
53
77
15
85
11
The position of medial t- in these chapters is as follows:
27
03
70
29
28
72
49
28
62
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35
20
45
31
27
73
71
208
15
93
140
459
226 760
Total
31
07
62
48
52
27.4%
12.2%
60.4%
6. The position of phonological changes in the Acaränga edited by W. Schubring, the oldest book of the Ardhamagadhi canonical literature, is quite different from the Isibhāsiyaim. In it the dropping of medial consonants is more than 50%, a state which
21%
79%
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