Book Title: Madhuvidya
Author(s): S D Laddu, T N Dharmadhikari, Madhvi Kolhatkar, Pratibha Pingle
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
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SOME PHONETIC PECULIARITIES
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Sk. nartaka -> nataka - at Banavāsi( L 11868). The sweeping change of n >n in all positions is obtained in the 4th cent. A. D. copper plates of Bāsim in Central India (cf. El 26. 137 ff).
In the Kharoşthi inscriptions n- is initially cerebralised from the 1st cent. A. D. (cf. nagara - Taxila silver scroll inscription, nana (< nāna) Māņikiāla inscription etc.. ), and in medial position from the 1st cent. B. C. (cf. bahujana , Sakamuni --Swāt relic vase inscription, etc. danamukha-Bimarān vase inscription, pujana - Zeda inscription, tanaya Skārah Dheri image inscription, etc. etc.
Madhu Vidyā/240
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