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

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ARCHAIC LINGUISTIC ELEMENTS IN THE ARDHAMĀGADHI (G) (Additional matter post-Hindi Edition):
A number of archaic forms with the -āni suffix for the Acc. Plu. of the Neuter gender are available in the Senior Canonical Works, e.g.
Ācā, kūrāni kammāni 1.148, duccaragāni 1.298, mamsūņi 1.303
Ācā 2.11 - muingasaddānī, etc. 669, vīņāsaddani etc. 670, tālasaddāni, etc., 671, samkhasaddāni, etc. 672, vappāņi, etc. 673 and so on.
Ācā 2.12- gaṁthimāni,..... pothakammāņi, cittakammāni, ..., vivihāni, 689 (and so on totalling 11 in number. In these Sūtras there are nominal forms with the usage of -aiṁ suffix also, e.g. virūvarūvāim, saddāim, egatiyāiṁ, etc. Uttarā. - niratthani 1.8, khettäni 9.36, bhimani
19.47, taņāņi 23.17, etc. Daśavai. - uvvattaņāņi3.5, āsaņāņi 9.2.17, savvāni
10.19 Isibhā. - kammāņi 2.5. dukkhāni 15.1, imdiyāņi
16.3, etc. (H) Some Archaic Usages of the Instrumental Singular of Words Ending in Consonants :
Pischel (364, 396, 407, 411, 413) has mentioned numerous old usages from the Ardhamāgadhī; they are -
vāyā = vācā (Uttarā.; Daśavai.) kāyaggirā (Daśavai.); we find vāyā in the Sū.Kr. (1.4.1.24) also. Other examples are : viusā, teyasă, ceyasā, jasasā, sirasā(also kāyasā, jogasă, niyamasā, payogasā, balasā, bhayasă, etc.) and matimayā, mahayā, jānayā, etc. These usages have been quoted from the Ācārānga, the Sūtrakrtānga, the Uttarādhyayana, the Daśavaikālika, the Sthānānga, the Bhagavatīsūtra
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