Distribution Of Absolutive In Una In Ittarajjhaya

Author(s): Herman Tieken
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laddhūņa vi mānusattanam āyariyattam punarāvi dullaham bahave dasuyā milakkhuyā samayam goyama mā pamāyae (16)20 laddhūna vi āyariyattanam ahiņapamcimdiyatā hu dullahā vigalimdiyatā hu disai ... (17)
laddhūņa vi uttamam suim saddahanā punarāvi dullahā micchattanisevae jane ... (19)
According to ALSDORF (1962: 111-115) these verses follow upon an interpolated passage (5-15). By implication verses 16 and following would belong to the original text. However, ALSDORF overlooked the fact that in 16 and 17 the absolutive laddhūņa, which is otherwise typical of Māhārāstri Prākrit, is found side by side with another element typical of that dialect, namely the suffix -ttaņa, in māņusattanam and āyariyattanam (or, as emended by ALSDORF, āriyattanam; see ALSDORF 1962: 112). The regular form in AMg is -tta, as in, for instance, micchatta in 19. This would mark 16 and 17,21 and with these 19, as late.
Chapter 13. datthūnam in 13.28/434. As already pointed out by ALSDORF (1957: 202) the first hemistich of this verse, hatthinapurammi cittā datthūņam naravaim mahiddhiyam, is an āryā, the second hemistich a sloka.
Chapter 18 45/595 = 9.61, for which, see above, $ 2.
Chapter 19 19.20/624 and 22/626 read:
evam dhammam akāūņam jo gacchai param bhavam gacchamte se duhi hoi vāhirogehim pilie (20)
20 Cp. Āvassaya-Nijjutti 836:
iya dullahalambham māņusattanam pāviūna jo jivo
na kunai pārattahitam so soyai samkamaņakale. 21 For metrical reasons ALSDORF proposes to eliminate the word ahina in ahina
pamcimdiyatā in 17 and 18. In this case, however, the usefulness of metrical considerations may be questioned. For one thing, we have to do with patchwork verses here, and, secondly, ahiņapamcimdiyatā is a standard descriptive expression. Other instances are found in, e. g. Vivāga 1.16 (p. 719, 1. 11-12): tassa ņam vijayassa khattiyassa miyā nāmam devi hotthā - ahina padipunnapamcimdiyasarīrā - vannao, and Ovāiya 1.15 (p. 11, 1. 19 ff).