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A FURTHER NOTE ON TAKKI
By
M. A. MEHENDALE
Dr. S. M. KATRE was kind enough to point out to me a very small Kadavaka from Harivamsapurana which, according to its author, is written in Dhakka-bhăşă. The Kadavaka occurs in the 103rd Samdhi of the Purana. The passage is a very small one consisting of barely nine lines and is full of proper names of Yadavas. Hence the passage does not afford to us any great opportunity to study the dialect in which it is written.
We find the following vowels in this dialect: a, a, i, i, u, e and o. The consonants in their initial position are generally preserved. In the medial position they are either preserved or lost. There are some cases in which the loss of occlusion in medial aspirates is found. At times the medial surds are sonantised. The laws of palatalisation and cerebralisation are also at work. There is not a single dental n in the whole Kadavaka; everywhere it is cerebralised into . The liquid r is never changed to I. In this respect the present dialect at once differs from the Täkkī found in Mycchakatika. There is also one more salient aspect in which the present dialect is at variance with the one in Mycchakatika. In the dialect of this Kadavaka all the three sibilants s, ś, $, are reduced to the single dental sibilant s. In this respect this dialect is not in conformity with the European and Syrian Romani where we find two sibilants s and f as in the Täkki of Mycchakatika.
There is nothing very particular to be noted in Morphology. The nom. sg. of mas. nouns in -a ends in -u. The masculine nouns in -i and are brought over to the a type so that in the gen. sg. of all these nouns we get the termination -ssa. In a solitary case we find the termination -him for the gen. sg. instead of -ssa, e.g. Subhanu-kim. Märkandeya while describing the characteristics of Täkki gives -harh and hush as the optional terminations for the gen. plu. He is silent as regards the terminations for gen. sg. We do not find this termination -hi in Täkki of Mycekakatika either.
As regards conjugation we get only a few forms of the present indicative, e.g. bhavadi, sākai etc.
Below is given a complete index of all the words occurring in the Kadavaka. The references are given to the page number and the line number in the Apabhramsapāthāvalī, edited by M. C. MODI.
Anandaṇa-, gen. sg. -ssa, 65.140, Sk. Anandana..
Kisamajjhuddesanteura, gen. sg. -ssa, 65.142, Sk. Kysamadhyoddes
antaḥpura-.
Kusumasara-, gen. sg. -ssa, 65.137, Sk. Kusumaśara-. Kesava, gen. sg. -ssa, 65.136, Sk. Kesava-. Jaunasida, gen. sg. -ssa, 65.137, Sk. Yamunasrita
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