Jain Journal 1996 04

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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JAIN JOURNAL VOL-XXX No. 4, April 1996
b) Gerund: *hodavva, Ś. also bhavidavva, Mg. also huvidavva (bhavitavya); sodavva [also sunidavva], M. soavva (srotavya); *kādavva, M. kāavva (kartavya).- The aniya suffix becomes *ania, M. anijja: for ex. karania, M. karanijja (karaniya); Mg. palihalania (pariharaniya).— kajja, Mg. kayya (kārya);°gějjha, Mg. dugghěyha (=*grhya, *durgṛhya).
c) Infinitive: The S. Mg. suffix dum, M. um often occurs with the pure stem or the stem of the present with the linking vowel i for example, gacchidum beside gamidum and o*gantum; pucchidum, Mg. puścidum, M. pucchium (prastum); kāredum (kārayitum); M. nivvāheum (nirvāhayitum); Mg. sodhāvedum (sodhāpayitum); more rarely being contraried: tāḍaïdum (tāḍayitum); Mg. mālaïdum (mārayitum); dharidum, M. dhārium (dhārayitum); măridum, Mg. mālidum (mārayitum). From the second conjugation: sunidum, M. soum (srotum); bhunjidum, M. bhottum (bhoktum); genhidum, M. gahium (grahitum); *kādum, karidum, M. kaum (kartum). Formations throughout corresponding to Sanskrit like jividukāma (jivitu°), M. tāḍiumaṇā (tāḍayitumanāḥ).
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d) Absolutive. Apart from *kadua and *gadua (kṛtvā, gatvā), there is in Ś. Mg. ya (resp. a) which is the only governing suffix, while that for M. una is found. A distinction between the simple and the compound verbs is not made.-naïa (*nayiya nītvā), but āņia, avania (aniya, apaniya), *bhavia (bhūtvā); odaria, Mg. odalia (avatirya); pariharia, Mg. palihalia (parihṛtya); pěkkhia, Mg. pěskia (prekṣya); pavisia, Mg. pavisia (pravisya); gĕnhia (gṛhitvā).-Examples for M. : jeūņa (jitva), houņa (bhūtvā), hasiūna (hasitva), vihasiūna (vihasya), gaḥiūna, ghettuna, the latter metrically also in Mg. (gṛhitvā).
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N.B. The grammatical discussions are made till the end of page 35. From the pages 36 to 43 the specimens from some texts are given. For the Specimens of Śauraseni and Māhārāṣṭri (pp. 36-38) the passages are taken from the Karpuramanjari edited by Sten konow 1.4.15-12.3. And the Specimen for Magadhi (pp. 38-43) is given from the Sakuntalā edited by Richard Pischel, S 113-116. All the Prakrit texts are accompanied with Sanskrit rendering. [Editor]