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Dr. Charlotte Krause : Her Life & Literature
Some forms can even be recognized as bearing the stamp of rather a late stage of Gurjara Apabhraíśa, if not of Gujarati. To this category belong the above-mentioned bijaha for older bījahu,234 thuộaha for thunahu, and i- absolutiva like kari, jodi, besides chaum for acchauṁ ( Modern Gujarati chuộ )235, the Nominative singular neutre te, hiva236 (Saṁskṛta adhunā, Modern Gujarati have ),237 eha pari ( corresponding to Saṁskṛta etad + prakare, Modern Gujarati e + per ),238 forms with final i changed to e239 as sampajjae, gajjae, dippae, viharae ( all four verbs being used in the Parasmaipada only, in Prākṣta ), and several cases of consonant aggregates being replaced by single consonants with or without lengthening of the preceding vowel,240 as lāgi, Prāksta laggi, Saṁskṛta lagna ), tājiu ( Prāksta tajjiya, Saṁsksta tarjita), viņavauí (Präksta viņpavemi, Samskrta vijñāpayāmi), at the side of lagaum, jugaum.
Forms like the latter ones are rare in, if not alien to, even later Apabhramśa, such as represented by the Apabhraṁsa portions of Somaprabha Sūri's Kumārapala-pratibodha241 ( not to speak of the earlier Bhaviyasattakahā242 and the Harivaṁśa-purāņa by Dhanapāla, or of the Vasudevahindi),243 and characterize the earlier stages of Middle Gujarati rather than Apabhraíía, gaining more and more ground in Modern Gujarati..
All those phonological phenomena, it is true, cannot be ascribed with certainty to the poet himself, as for some of them (just as for occasional ‘ya-śruti' ), clerical influence might be responsible. Yet a number of them are testified as doubtlessly genuine by metre, rhyme, as well as by the persistency of their occurrence. On this basis, the language of the poem can safely be defined as being either very late Gaurjara Apabhraíía, or, with more probability, early Middle Gujarati.
The mixture of archaic and recent forms, the numerous tatsamas, such as nikara, tāta, sampūraka, durita, tāraka, nāyaka, pāpa, tāpāpaha, sẵdara, Eddhikara, kathina, hatha, ghata, lobha, rāga, bhoga, indra, pada, gati, mati, abhinava, mada, bodha, dāyaka,244 the
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