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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THE ANTIQUITY OF THE ARDHAMĀGADHĨ AGAMA TEXTS AND THE PLACE OF THEIR COMPOSITION
: FOOT-NOTES :
The practice of writing or inscribing only one consonant in place of its duplication is found in the inscriptions, as for instance, ttu = tu. Examples from the Ashokan inscriptions : (a) amtiyokasa sāmamtā lājāne
(Dhaulī, Jaugada, No.2.2) : (b) artiyogasā sāmaṁtā läjäno
(Kālasī, No.2.5); amtiyokassa samamta rajano (Sāhabāzgadhi, No.2.6); .. gasa samamta rajane (Mānaseharā, No. 2.6); artiyakasa sāmīpam rājāno
(Giranāra, No.2.3). See, 'Pāli-English Dictionary', wherein the usages from the Dīghanikāya and the Vinayapitaka are quoted. L. Alsdorf : Kleine Schriften, pp.451-2; and see, Mehendale, No.43, p. 22. The following forms are found there in Sanskrit language in the case of the word puras occurring as the first member of a compound, viz., pura, puraḥ, puras, puras, purā, puro; there is no usage of pure in them. See, Taina Sahitya Ka Brhad Itihasa, Vol. I, Prastāvanā by Pt. Dalsukh Malvaniya, p. 51.
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