Arddhmagdhi Grammar

Author(s): P L Vaidya
Publisher: Modern Book Depot

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ARDHAMAGADHI GRAMMAR
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changed in Amg. This rule is slackened for the single initial consonant of a word when it happens to be the second member of a compound word. Thus we can have सुहकर and सुहयर from सुखकर; जलचर and जलयर from जलचर, where and are regarded as initial as well as medial. सुपुरुष gives us सुउरिस because प is regarded as medial here. These consonants, however, remain unchanged when they come after an अनुस्वार. Thus we have संकर, संगम, नक्कंजर, धणंजय, पुरंदर etc., and not संअर, or संयर ; संअम, or संयम ; संयलिय (for संकलित ) etc. Similarly, an initial conjunct consonant is not allowed in Amg. but when a word with initial conjunct happens to be the second word in a compound, the rule is slackened. Thus we have सुहपसव and सुहप्पसव from सुखप्रसव ; मज्जपसङ्गी and मज्जप्पसङ्गी from मद्यप्रसङ्गिन् ; निग्गमपवेस and निग्गमप्पवेस from निर्गमप्रवेश ; रयणप्पभा from रत्नप्रभा ; सइरप्पयार from स्वैरप्रचार etc.
11. The medial single consonants क, ग, च, ज, त, प, च and व are, as a rule, dropped. When they are so dropped, their place is taken by a lightly pronounced य ( लघुप्रयत्नतरयश्रुति or अस्पृष्टतरयश्रुति ) in Amg. and in Jain Māhārāṣṭrī, provided the preceding vowel is or and the vowel left after the dropping of the consonant is not इ, ई, उ or ऊ. Thus we have तित्थयर ( तीर्थकर ), नयर ( नगर ), कयग्गह (कचग्रह), पयावई ( प्रजापति), धरणीयल ( धरणीतल ), मयण ( मदन), रिक ( रिपु ), नयण ( नयन ), लायण्ण ( लावण्य ) यश्रुति is not possible in the following :- सउण ( शकुन or शकुनि ), पउर (प्रचुर), राईव (राजीव), पईव (प्रदीप ), वाऊ (वायु), as the vowel combinations there do not require it. Sometimes is noticed occurring between two words when the initial of the seccond word is dropped as in न याणइ ( न जानाति ).
fa
12. Here I should like to refer to the question of afa, i. e., reading and writing in the place of vowels (original or उद्वृत्त, i e, left after the dropping of a consonant), which is very largely resorted to by writers