Apbhramsa of Hemchandracharya

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Kantilal Baldevram Vyas, Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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( 3 ) (हे) पुत्रिके, मया भणिता त्वं मा कुरु वक्रां दृष्टिम् । पुत्र, सकर्णा भहिर्यथा मारयति हृदये प्रविष्टा ॥
"O dear (lit. 'daughter')! I had told you (lit. 'you were told by me'): 'do not send side-glances; (for), (my) child (lit. 'daughter') (your side-glances) destroy (young men) by piercing their hearts like a barbed arrow (lit. 'an arrow with a sharp, curved head )'.
instances of Lengthen
Here दिट्ठि, भल्लि and भणिअ and पइट्ठि are all final shortening of vowels in Feminine nouns. ing of the ultimate vowel of Feminine nouns, ending in oris, naturally, out of question.
The change also occurs in nouns in the Nom. pl.; as, for instance:
( 4 )
=
=
एते ते घोटकाः ( अत्र मनुष्यत्वं ( "Here are the horses; here is the battle-field; here are the sharp swords. Here is (one's) valour (lit. 'manliness') tested (lit. 'known'), when one does not turn the reins (of horses) ( away from the field of battle)."
Here in
and far the final vowel is lengthened. Similarly, instances of this change, occurring in other cases, may be cited.
Hemacandra has used in this and subsequent sutras the following saṁjñās () to denote nominal and pronominal cases, formed, evidently, from their respective case-terminations.
Case
Nominative &
Vocative
Accusative
Instrumental
Dative
Ablative
Genitive
Locative
Singular (Based
fa
अम्
टा
दे
अश्वाः ), एषा [रण - ] स्थली, एते ते निशिताः खगाः । पौरुषं) ज्ञायते यः नापि वल्गां वालयति ॥
aft
दसू
&
on case-term.)
( =स् )
= आ )
(=5)
(
=
- अस् )
=
असू)
5)
Plural (Based on
case-term.)
( = असू )
( = अस् )
STEL
शस्
fire
भ्यस्
12TH
आम्
सु