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Comparative Study of the Language of the Acārānga and the Isibhāsiyāim both edited by Prof. Schubring.
- K. R. Chandra While going through the text of the Svetāmbara Jain canonical works one is unable to form a proper idea of the main linguistic features of the Ardhamāgadhi language. In the edited texts there is a mixture of archaic and younger usages. In the absence of any authentic grammatical treatise on Ardharuāgadhi and due to the oral tradition a number of phonetical and morphological changes entered the original Amg. from time to time and place to place. This historical truth is well-known to all of us.
We are giving below a comparative list of usages from the ch. IX of the Acārāngal and the Isibhāsiyāim? both belonging to the earliest strata of the Amg. canonical works. When we compare linguistically the usages from these two works one is surprised to note that Ācārānga (Erster Srutaskandha), the earliest Amg. text is full of Mahārästri usages without any Amg. usage whereas the Isibhāsiyāim has generally the archaic (Amg.) usages with some what Mahārāştri usages also.
Comparative List of Usages
Ācārānga, I, Ch. 9
Isibhāsiyāim
Medial -k- (Hazanit --)
tulah, , patratTahl, yailah, 497, HR-; gum, ,
Bruti, greu, gra, to, path, Yari; pasem, , 194, 154, लोए, वियड (-k. = .g. and -a-, -y-) (no original -(-)
एगो
(-k- = generally -k- and -g- also but no -a--y-)
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