In Search of the Original Ardhamagadhi English Translation

Author(s): K R Chandra, N M Kansara, Nagin J Shah, Ramniklal M Shah
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

Page 45

ARCHAIC LINGUISTIC ELEMENTS IN THE ARDHAMĀGADHI
(B)
(ii) Medial -dh- retained. asādhū Sū.Kr. 2.2. 713, p.176; samādhīya Sū.Kr. 1.10.6, p. 85,
fin. 26 (v.1. from Cūrni) Voicing of the Medial Consonatns, Instead of Elision :
Numerous usages with voicing of medial 'k' are surely available in the Ardhamāgadhī. Along with them, sometimes we find that the usages with 'd' and 'dh' in place of 't' and 'th' repectively (i.e. voiced medials too) are preserved in Ardhamāgadhī, as for instance : (1) pāda for pătat pătra (4 times in the Ācā.
(MJV.) 2.6.1.592; sarapädagaṁ (sarapātakam)
- Sū. Kr., 1.4.2.13 (Alsdorf)"; (2) bhavidavvaṁ (bhavita vyam) - Isibhā., 3.1
(Schübring) and also (additional matter postHindi Edition) the instances from the Sū.kr. (MJV. Edn.) sikkhadi(v.1. kham 2) 1.5.1.303, adīte=atīte (v.1. khaṁ 2, Pu. 1) 1.6.356), ativādāya = atipātāya (v.1. kham 2, Pu. 1, Lā) 1.8.414, adivādejā for atipātejjä (v.1. kham 1) 1.8.429, uppādāhi for uppātāhi (v.1. four times from the Cūrņi) 2.1.643 tadhā, radha, jadhā, kadham, savvadhā (for tathā, ratha, yathā, katham, sarvathā) see, Isibhā., 3.7.8;24.3., 25.14; 35.12;38.29; 40.10; 45.25. jadhā (yathā), Ācā., 2.5.555; Sü. Kı. (MJV) jadhā 1.1.2.45, annadhā, variant,
1.7.384, (kham 2, Pu. 1, Lā.). (4) adha (atha) - Itthīparinnā, Sū. Kr., 1.4.1.23
(Punya. Edn.) (5) The forms with 'āgha' for the root ‘ākhyā', such as, āgha, āghavaņā, āghavijjanti,
28