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INTRODUCTION TO ARDHA-MĀGADHI
(Ana.
Ardha-Māgadhi 1: language
1; name of i, canon in 2 ; preserving older aspects than
Sk. and Pāli 91. Atsa (=AMg.) 2. Article, substitute for 328;
origin of 328; in canonical
prose 328. Articulation, mode of (pra
yatna) 5; place of (sthāna) 5; change of place of 24 ; retroflex (prativestita : a sound articulated with the tip of the tongue turned up and back towards the palate)
31.
Analytical construction for
Acc. 359. Anaptyxis (svarabhakti : the
development of a sound as a glide between two other sounds) 65; 117; in passive
265; in gerund 249. Ant. Antagadadasão ed. Dr.
Vaidya. Antithesis (contrast between
two statements) 468. Anudātta (grave accent) 121. Anusvāra (after-sound'). 6;
pronunciation of 7; for nasal 66; replaced by parüsavarna 82; for a long vowel 127; in declension 148; analogically extended 154 ;
216 ; 226. Aorist (luń, adyatani : morpho
logically a theme which admits of only secondary inflections in the indicative and semantically originally expressing a perfective action like that of 'find ') forms of 204; 205 ; injunctive
forms of 235. Apabhramsa 41 ; forms of
verbs in 179; of nouns 188. Apposition (of the two sub
stantives in the same case the one which determines the other in some particular or explains it further) place
of 483 ; in comp. 514. Archaism (older formation) in
vocabulary 14.
Asoka, inscriptions of 42. Acol Aspect (Aktionsart : nature of
the action denoted) of the
verb 160. Aspirate (üşman: a sound
containing the sound [h] 5; 6; nasal 15; aspiration of initial consonants 22 ; loss of aspiration 23; of medial consonants 37 ; loss of 38; influence of 38; absence of 79; followed by 'nasal 87; by semi-vowel 91 ; by liquid
94 ; free nature of 30. Assimilation (The total or
partial conformation of one sound to another) 55; principle of 57 ; regressive 58; 64; 76; 83; 95 ; progressive 63 ; 67; violation of the rules of 97 ; of vowels 111 ; of -y- 249; 277.
