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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In Search of the Original Ardhamāgadhi
K.R. Chandra : FOOT - NOTES : 1. This is a somewhat revised version of my paper entitled
Ardhamāgadhi Bhāṣā Aura Ācārya Hemacandra kā Prākrta Vyakarana', published in the 'Sambodhi, vol. XVI, 1989, pp.4251; it is presented here with due thanks to the editor of the
Journal. 2. Pāia-sadda-mahannavo', (2nd Edn., 1963) Upodghāta, p.45,
f.n. 4. 3. No exclusive work in Māgadhī is extant, except the Māgadhi
that is used in the Sanskrit dramas. 4. Pāia-sadda-mahannavo' (1963), Upodghāta, p.35. 5. Pischel, 16-17. 6. Bharata's N.S., “..... saptabhāsāḥ prakirtitāḥ (17.47). 7. One more sütra (8.3.137) should be added to those ones that
are mentioned by Nitti Dolchi. Cf., 'The Prakrit Grammarians' (1972), p.180, f.n.1. The topics in the vȚtti on various sūtras
of Hemacandra's Prakrit Grammar ( 8.4) are as follows : Number T opic Number
Topic of Sūtra
of Sūtra Ārsam
1 Final consonant Phonetic change of
Indeclinable vowel Change of ‘ah'
Nipāta Initial non-conjunct
Case suffix of noun consonant Medial non-conjunct
Optional case terminations consonants Initial conjunct
Past tense consonants Medial conjunct
1 Participle consonants
8 = 31 Total Sūtras The sūtra-numbers, in the Prakrit grammar of Hemacandra ( 8.4 ), treating the above topics are as follows, pāda-wise:
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