Comparative Study of Language of Shatkhandagama and Pravachansara

Author(s): K R Chandra
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K. R. Chandra
Nirgrantha
(B) Satkhandāgama (SA), khanda 1, part 1, book 1 (sūtras 1 to 90).
(Percentage)
Medial consonants (Nos.)
-K- = --
Critical remarks on Prof. Upadhye's opinion.
2
It is mostly elided.
3(-) % 1.5(-) % 95(+) %
950 % 50 %
No comment
Fully correct
16
82(-) % 18(+) %
Scanty instances
1
0 % 100 %
No comment
32 % 68 %
-th- = -th
-h- -d-.-d
-y. -dh- = -dh-
h -bh- . -bh-
-b-
Fully Correct
51
2 31
0 16
6(+) % 94(-) %
No comment
0 % 100 %
The above-recorded analysis reveals that there are 113 instances of retention, 73 instances of voicing and 189 instances of elision, i.e. 30 % retention, 19.5% voicing and 50.5% dropping. In the PS the voicing is 49% i.e. 30% more than that in the SA but the dropping in the SA is 14% more than that in the PS. Analysis of morphological usages. Suffixes of Locative Singular PS.
SA. -T EY, FE PE, FEHT 89
-I 30, -f R. -fi 8
-fre is an archaic declensional suffix of locative singular which is nearly 25 % in the PS. whereas in the SA. its percentage is only 6. As far as the absolutive forms are concerned the - GU suffix is popular in the PS. and there is no -507 suffix in the PS. whereas Jain traces the absolutive forms with the - 370 suffix in the SA. Thus both on the phonological and morphological grounds we find that the language of SA. is of a later stage than that of the PS. in the evolutionary process of MIA dialects.