Distribution Of Variant Endings U Au And A In Apabhramsa Verses In Hemacandras Prakrit Grammar

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Author: Herman Tiken
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HERMAN TIEKEN
of a particular class of words which are enlarged with the suffix -d-, the second of a number of individual words.
Substantives such as diahadā (333), nehadā (356), and dosadā (379, 1), and hiadaü (350, 2), and rūadaü and dūadaü (419, 1). They all show the suffix -d-, which is typical of Apabhramsa (see Alsdorf, Apa-Studien, pp. 18-20. Occasional instances in an early Prākrit text like the Sattasaí are demonstrably later additions; see Tieken, Hāla's Sattasai, p. 162. The use of the long and extended endings in these words must be disassociated from that under investigation, namely in adjectives and participles for functional reasons.
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This leaves us with a relatively small number of individual words. From these must be separated rüaü in 422, 15b "a rupee", which clearly represents Skt rūpaka, kudumbai in 422, 14d, which represents kutumbaka,33 and probably also appaü in 422, 3b.34 This leaves us with the following 'exceptions':
nina "If yo of her a
330, 1a: dhollā sāmalā “The travelling man is dark" 330, 4a: ei ti ghodā "There are the stallions”35 352c: addhā valaā mahihi gaa “Half of her armlets fell on the ground" 384c: jaï icchahu vaddattanaü "If you want to be considered a great man" (cf. thirattanaüm in 422, 7, mentioned below) 388a: diahā janti "the days go by" (cf. diahā in 418, 4, mentioned below) 395, 2a: cûdullaü cunnihoisaï "The bracelet will be pulverized” 418, 4c: hosaï diahā rūsanā "A day (of anger) will last ..."36 422, 7a: vihave kassu thirattanaüm "To whom is wealth stable?” 422, 18c: tahi maaraddhaadadavadai padaï "On those falls the onslaught of the god of love"37 431, 1a: aṁsāsāsehi kañcuā tintuvvānu karanta “Making dry with sighs the bodice which was made wet by tears" 443c: padahaü vajjanaü “The drum sounds"38 445, 2a: abbhā laggā dungarihi “Clouds are clinging to the mountaintops”.