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of the development found in Bengali, of -e- in the neighbourhood of an hiatus changing into -i-. As an example Bloch (1934: 44) quotes siult from Skt śephalika. Turner, on the other hand, suggests that the special development found in diara goes back to the use of the word expressing a certain degree of intimacy (CDIAL 6546). The pair diara-deara has an exact parallel in vianā (64) beside veanā (e.g. * 26) (both from vedanā), of which the former could then be taken to denote a 'terrible pain' against the latter which would simply denote 'pain'.
39( 75 Ma, 76 Tp; 37 Bh, 39 R; 36 K, B, Y, P, 37 V, 85 PP, 36 G, 5, ; 404 T; 572 S) In P this Gātha occurs as 36 and a second time after 85, itself numbered 85. Missing in W.
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caccaraghariņt piadań- asaT saajjhia dug
saņā a tarunt pautthavaia a gaā a na hu khandi an silan..
cattara Bh; K, W, B, cattaa y, po, a P -- dassană Ma; daśaņā P, dasana po -- e Ma; vi S -- pautthapajā Ma, Tp; pautthadaiyā Bha (vaiya Bh); odaia K, Y, P, o taia PD, paia , B; T -- e Ma; a missing in P, pB -- saaṁdhia Tp; saajjiā R; K, V, B, Y (onjiā), P, sahadhyā P; saaccia T; saajhjhia S -- duggaā e Ma; a duggaa , B -- na kkhu Ma, na khu Tp; na ya Bh, puna R; ņu hu B. -- khandia B, kharidi am missing in P -- sīlai Ma.
A beautiful housewife living on a busy road, a young woman whose husband is abroad, an unchaste neighbour who is poor, (who believes that) propriety is not lost?
Hem. II 12 equates caccara with Skt catvara 'crossroad' (i.e. where four roads meet). The etymology of caccara is as yet unclear. Schwarzschild (1956: 112) suggests that caccara derives from cattara (+catvara) which was contaminated with the verb car-, as in sacara 'road'. I should like to suggest that Pkt (and Pāli) caccara is from*carcara 'a place where there is a constant coming and going', from there 'crossroad' (as a place where traffic accumulates). Note that in the Sattasat caccara each time indeed in particular denotes a place where a lot of people
