Collected Articles Of LA Schwarzschild On Indo Aryan 1953 1979

Author(s): Royce Wiles
Publisher: Australian National University

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NOTES ON THE MIDDLE SYSTEM IN MIDDLE INDO-ARYAN 51 as is so often thought, since then one would have expected the Jains Prakrit ending -
The influence of the Midland continued in the early period of the modern vernaculars and the type of future spread further and further from the region of Western Hindi to which it belongs. Thus in the sixteenth century Awadhi of Malik Muhammad Jaynsland of Tulsi Din the forms still prevail in the third persons, while elsewhere the future is found (Tulsi Dis: Ist a n, 2nd -hasi, 3rd karili, puiki, etc., 2nd pl. a , 3rd pl. karibi, kuria). In modern Awadhi (3rd sg. mariai, 3rd pl.w ikiai) the Hindi (Braj) forms have replaced the older type of conjugation.
Futures in coeur even in the texts of the extreme east: #second pl. future imperative ai (probably basikal
< iyatha) is found in the Dohas of Sarah, a work admittedly under Western influence; the few forms with i n the Old Bengali Caryüs and the third persons in the hai, in the early Middle Bengali of the Srikroa-kirttann of Cand have the same explanation. The future is a western importation in the Maithili "Avahattha" of Vidyapati Thakura, where there is a distinct Braj influence. In purer types of Old Maithili one only finds participial futures (eg, the Parijataharana of Umapati Upadhyaya, perhaps enrlier than Vidyapati). These imported future forms, absent from the modern Maithili and Bengali languages, show the extraordinary vitality of the language of the centre in the early pluses of the modern vernoulars.
There was also a variant development of the ending isyati, in which assimilation took place across the sibilant: issidi, which is frequent in the Saurseni portions of such dramas as were preserved in southern MSS. The change seen to have been confined to the third person. Examples already occur in the South Indian Inscriptions of Asoka radhis site is common to the minor Rock Edicts of
L. Dhu, Podul linguistic dy of the ni c estry Audi (Hindi). London, S.
3. Sales , "The verb in the m an of Tule Din," Allahabad Unin. Sudio,
53 NOTES ON THE FUTUR SYSTEM IN MIDDLE INDO-ARYAN Ruprath, Balmagiri, awl Siddapur. The only northern manu script in which suche forseer is the Saurent section of Ašvagho's dramas
and the contracted Although forms obviously belong to the extreme south, the grammar and them aren, perhaps on account of the presence of he's theory that Jain Busent is meant by this las been disproved by the texts, where there is no sign of such futures apart from the one curious double for bhavissibili (Bhat. Aradh, v. 1488). It is difficult to establish the later history of this ending, because the most southern language, Marathi, has not preserved the sigmatie future (although Tulpule and others claim to have found traces of it in ORL Marathi), and because the tendency to assimilate the to the surrounding vowels continues, so that the forma in is, which one finals o often in the Old Western Rajasthani text and even in isolated in Svetambara Apabirusa) are more likely to be on the normal Svetimbar future in than on the southem forma reflected in the Asokan inscriptions.
One can thomfort conclure on the evidence of the modern Verneurs and of the older text that there coexist in Middlo Indo-Aryan five main future and although they are not all attester at the same period (1) - Thi ART CENTIK (attested in Jina Pralcrit).
CENTRE (in Milánytri). (3) si WEST CENTER (orought into contact with 1) in
Borar, Digambarn Apabhramsa).
WEST (Svetimbara Apabhirami). (5) - EXTREME SOUTH (Southern Saurseni manuscripta).
This listribution was obscurely intricate interborrowing of forms and the in ce of the language of the centre.
Lades, w e ndiwber chel,
der with *N. . Tule, Yadar Mar
, Berlin, 1911
33. , Bombay, 1912
* N. Chudhuri, Studies in the Aparate of the Debirga, Caletta, 1910. Shahidullah, Lerchants mystique de Kanha de Baraka
Chatterji, Origin ander e Bengali la Caletta, 1996
Hallar"Vypt the Mathil pool and language". De Lell, Cole 1900. Sak , The language of the King Indian Linguistic,
Gron, "The Pirita Haruna of Umipati Upadhyays W. Brand Oria Orientale Society, 1917)
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