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K. R. Chandra
(B) Satkhandagama (SA), khanda 1, part 1, book 1 (sütras 1 to 90).
(Percentage)
22
Medial consonants
(Nos.)
-k
-t
-th
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-d
-k
-g- = -8
-y
-dh
-g
60 >
-y
-t
-d
-y
=-th
-h
-d
-y
÷
=-dh
-h
-bh- -bh-b
2
1
69
85
5
0
72
16
0
1
325
24
51
2
31
0
16
3(-) % 1.5(-) %
95(+) %
95(-) %
5()%
82(-) %
18(+)%
0 %
100 %
32 %
68 %
6(+) %
94(-) %
0 % 100 %
Critical remarks on Prof. Upadhye's opinion.
It is mostly elided.
No comment
Fully correct
Scanty instances
No comment
Fully Correct
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No comment
The above-recorded analysis reveals that there are 113 instances of retention, 73 instances of voicing and 189 instances of elision, i.e. 30 % retention, 19.5% voicing and 50.5% dropping. In the PS the voicing is 49% i.e. 30% more than that in the SA but the dropping in the SA is 14% more than that in the PS.
Analysis of morphological usages.
Suffixes of Locative Singular
PS.
- ए ६४, म्हि २६, म्मि ११
Nirgrantha
SA.
- ए ३०, म्हि २, म्मि ४
-fe is an archaic declensional suffix of locative singular which is nearly 25 % in the PS. whereas in the SA. its percentage is only 6.
As far as the absolutive forms are concerned the suffix is popular in the PS. and there is no - suffix in the PS. whereas Jain traces the absolutive forms with the - 3 suffix in the SA.
Thus both on the phonological and morphological grounds we find that the language of SA. is of a later stage than that of the PS. in the evolutionary process of MIA dialects.
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