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________________ Vol. 1-1995 Editing of Ancient.... 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 0 5. Phonological changes in the Isibhāsiyāirii Isibhāsiyāim" is regarded as one of the oldest of the Ardhamāgadhi texts along with the Acārānga, the Sūtrakrtānga, the Uttarādhyayana and the Daśavaikālika. The state of phonological changes in this work is quite different from that encountered in other older Jaina canonical texts in the Ardhamāgadhi. An analysis of the data from some select chapters No. 1, 2, 3, 5, 11, 29 and 31 reveals that an average of dropping, voicingunvoicing, and retention is 11 to 35%, 7 to 22% and 45 to 81% respectively. The chapter-wise analysis is as follows: chs 01 102 03 05 11 29 31 Total 27 12 05 03 27 32 07 01 19 27 22 | 49 28 71 15 140 226 82 208 93 459 760 61 137 62 Total 1100 45 146 77 139 The percentage of phonological changes in these chapters is as follows : chs 01 02 03 05 | 11 29 31 Average 27 11 27 18 22 27 | 04 3531 2007 07 03 27.4% 12.2% 60.4% The position of medial -t- in these chapters is as follows : tage I RI 68 100 85 72 73 5 2 79% 6. The position of phonological changes in the Ācāränga edited by W. Schubring', the oldest book of the Ardhamāgadhi canonical literature, is quite different from the Isibhāsiyāim. In it the dropping of medial consonants is more than 50%, a state which www.jainelibrary.org For Private & Personal Use Only Jain Education International
SR No.522701
Book TitleNirgrantha-1
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorM A Dhaky, Jitendra B Shah
PublisherShardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre
Publication Year1995
Total Pages342
LanguageEnglish, Hindi, Gujarati
ClassificationMagazine, India_Nirgrantha, & India
File Size10 MB
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