________________ 26 Foot-notes: 1. Ayaramga-Sutta, Part I, Preface, pp. viji-xiv, London, 1882. 2. Acaranga-Sutra, Erster Sruta-skandha, Leipzig, 1910. 3. Ibid No.1. 4. See Kalpasutra, (Preface pp. 3-7), Sarabhai Manila] Nawab, Ahmedebad, 1952; Prof. Ludwig Alsdorf also agreed with the former and admitted that there was imperative need to reconsider the whole problem seriously. 5. lbid No. 1. p. viii. 6. Pischel's Comparative Grammar of Prakrits, Para 18. 7. See lbid foot-note No. 4 and the editions of Amg. Canonical Texts by Prof. W. Schubring, etc. 8. In the text of Acaranga edited by Jacobi, there are numerous usages retaining medial consonants and they are just like Pali language. Pischel (para No. 18) rejects the idea of inclusion of Amg. under Maharastri and would like to connect it with Magadhi Inscriptions. He further says, it is likely that at the time of compilation of the canon at the councils of Mathura and Valabhi, the original dialect got a western colouring. At Valabhi particularly the influence of Maharasiri might have been quite considerable. But such an influence could not have been significant because even by it the basic character of Aig. was not touched. 9. Medial I = and 4 = 4 in some usages is not due to the influence of Sauraseni as scholars believe, but this kind of voicing the unvoiced inedial consonants seems to have begun before Christian era and later on this trait became the main feature of Sauraseni. 10. Initial dental nasal 1 - is retained by Indian editors of Amg. texts, but in some cases it is cerebralised into I - which is definitely a wrong prac. tice as far as Amg. is concerned. 11. Land FL are changed to 1 in Ashokan inscriptions of the East, and therefore the same rule for Aing, and their change into MI in it is to be regarded as a wrong practice. 12. The -ni (ToT) suffix of neuter Nom. and Acc. plural is archaic which is replaced by -im (-) in the later Prakrits. As far as the archaic nature of Amg, is concerned -ni (Ft) should be used in place of -ni (fon) in the light of Pali and Ashokan inscriptions. 13. Comparative Grammar of the Prakrit Languages. Dr. K. R. CHANDRA 375, SARASWATI NAGAR NR. HIMMATLAL PARK AMBAWADI AIMEDABAD 380015 Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org