________________
xxxii upon the language of the Canon that though Hemcandra's Ārsa language 35 which he does call Ardhamāgadhi, 36 does not find the separate treatment as such in his grammar. Abhayadeva has in more than one place admitted that Ardhamāgadhi, though it has some peculiarties of Māgadhi, has not all of them.37 As to the S’aurseni influence, if at all it can be called influence, it is the the less drastis vocalization of the consonants than that found in Maharastri.
With all these, however, it does possess certain characteristies of its own which remind us of its antiquity and differentiate it from Mahārāştri. 38
35. Hem. VIII. i. 3. 36. Hem. VIII. iv. 287.
37. अभयदेव on भगवती V. 4. leaf. 231. मागधभाषा लक्षणं किंचित् किंचिच्च प्राकृतभाषालक्षण यस्यामस्ति सा 'अर्धे मागघ्याः' sfa zycyrell Bartet i On qouqur. 39777 says: 'अद्धमागही य' त्ति प्राकृतादीनां षण्णां भाषाविशेषाणां मध्ये या मागधी नाम भाषा 'रसोर्लशौ मागध्याम्' इत्यादि लक्षणवती सा असमाश्रितस्वकीयAHY SHUTT Båarirent' sta zeudi See. Intro. P. 87. BATTABLA by L. B. Gandhi (G. O. S. Baroda) where all the passages bearing on Ardha-Magadhi have been quoted in full; also see Pischel's Grammatik. Eint. § 16-§ 17.
38. The differentiating characteristics have
