Arddhmagdhi Grammar

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

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ARDHAMĀGADHI GRAMMAR
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which affects 7. It first becomes 3 and then by § 14 is changed to 3. Thus we have gigaie (sagrauta), qisqa (afaqa), PÍSET ( fa&TT ), TIITEIT ( Arfaetê ), TiSAT (
S AT). Similarly or in certain words is changed to to compensate the loss of a cerebral in the original Sk. word. Thus we have TCH ( 4 ), goat (quat) and faica (FATTras which comes from the root y). also is changed to as under the same circumstances as in gataz (seraufa), fost (aria), grad (CIT).
17. The medial single af is generally changed to 07. Hemacandra however remarks that in 379, i, e, in Amg., even medial 57 is not at times changed to as in 371777, af, at etc. It is however better to observe this general rule of changing 7 to or in the middle of a word. If initial a occurs at the beginning of the second member of a compound, we may or inay not change it to 0. Thus we may have पडिनिक्खम or पांडणिक्खम from प्रतिनिष्क्रम् , but ordinarily we should have di as in 970TT ( FORT), FUTOT (aga). Fyr ( 937 ), 770 ( 777), FUF (Hlaala ).
18. As regards initial single 4, Jain grammarians like Hemacandra, allow an option to change it to a. The non-Jain grammarians say that 7, initial or medial, must be changed to 0. The practice of Mss. writers cannot, in this respect, serve a useful guide to us. So by resorting to charitalahtar rule of grammarians, we should have initial 7 in Jain works, (which rule I have followed in works edited by me except in the solitary case of ui ( 97 as an expletive ), and or in the middle.
19. Here again I should like to indulge in a digression to discuss the position of a and up. The grammarians (Jains and non-Jains), do not help us at all in this matter; they are all silent about these conjuncts. I should, therefore, recommend the observance of Jacobi's rule to use to where in the original Sk, word of occurs, and to