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scripts subsequent to this date (V. S. 1656) showing ts for 97-97 in Gujarâtî will really come as a surprise to many. I may be wrong and my research is, no doubt, limited in extent in this respect. I should really be glad, therefore, to see such instances in Gujarati manuscripts. May it be that Dr. Tessitori has come across such cases in Gujarâtî manuscripts written by scribes who were under Maravâdi influence ? Again, Dr. Tessitori himself regards the contraction of r-*3 into - as one of the characteristics marking the exis. tence of Gujarati as independent from the 0. W. Rajasthâni, and puts it at the head of the list.13 If s, is it likely that any early Gujarati manuscript will show it as the evolutes of H-573 ? However, we need not wander into the realm of conjecture as to probabilities, when it may be possible for Dr. Tessitori to show concrete instances. Till then I must regards as evolutes of 373-97 to be foreign to Gujarati in any of its stages development.
To come to the clearing up of my position now :-I do not mean to suggest that saअव (as developments of आ-3) were actually written, except in rare cases like वयर, बयठउ and the like ; all I contend is that they were potential developments, as precedent conditions requisite for the production of the wide sound (-i) which comes on the final v being lost through want of accent, thus giving 99-HT as the causativ - principle of the Lroad sound. 16 Dr. Tessitori will not be averse to accepting this principle of potential (levelopment, for he has to take his ne through a potential stage, though not found in actual writing. (See p. 77 of his article on "Bardic Survey ", the article under notice.) There are several such potential intermediate changes, which I class under CAT (i.e., transitional utaargas, or rules marking operations during transitional steps). I may cite only one instance: As a reverse process to the change of to Siddha. Hem, VIII. ii. 57), I find a change of to 57, only as a possible middle step, in the formation of sta (Guj.) from AT* (Sanskrit), through f a -***
Thus, this change of अइ-अउ to भय-अव (then अय्-भव्) is only a possible phonetic process as a transitional step, and when instances in actual writing, like, T2, Taraft, etc., do happen to come up, I take them as clear indications of the tendency in support of my theory. Even if there were no such actual instances in support, I should still adhere to the anti-samprasarana theory, as I find in it a potential principle supplying a clear working hypothesis.
(To be continued.)
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the Countery and Scarcity of goods which may Council at Fort St. George to John Nicks and
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no excuse for the badness of the goods, nothing can sent us proves soe very Cource, ill washt, and packt,
necessitate that, for if they reach not muster that tis unfitt to be sent home. To Satisfy you
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15 Vide Dr. Tessitori's “ Notes". p. 6. of the Introduction.
af Vide my Note on Gujarati Pronunciation, ante, Vol. XLIV, p. 18, footnote 3, and the portion to which it is a note.
