Madhuvidya

Author(s): S D Laddu, T N Dharmadhikari, Madhvi Kolhatkar, Pratibha Pingle
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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kata (kyta) s, ru, kpb, and kataviya (kartavyu) yr; for th>th, cf. atha (artha) s, ru, kpb, yr; for d<d cf. udara kpb, uďāla30 s, b, ru mk, khudakal kpb; for rdh > dh, cf. diyadhiya, adhātiya (ardhatrika), and Vvadha (Vvardh) which occur in all versions; for st>th, cf. thabha (stambha) ru, but thańbhas; for sth > th, cf. thitiki (sthiti) in all versions. Now with regard to st it is to be observed that thambha is the eastern form, as st>th in D,J, K and also M, while thanbha is the west-central form, as st remains or becomes st in G, which latter may have been further assimilated to th in the west-central dialect. With regard to thitika, it may be noted that this form with the cerebral is the eastern one (as sth > sth in the forms of Vsthā) and it occurs in the minor rock edict as it was already known in the north-west through the M version.32 It may be added that perhaps in mk we have uthāna (utsthāna) while uthana is found in S, M also.
For vyuşta we have vyutha in ru and vyutha:"3 in yr as quite regtilar forms. The s version, on the other hand, gives the eastern form vivutha.34 It appears that vyutha and vivutha came from two different bases derived from vi vas., the former from vi + *ustak and the latter from vi+ *vasta.36 . The treatment of n:n: It is well known that n is eastern and n non-eastern. Now among the versions of the minor rock edict, we have n in kpb, (as also in the Mysore version), but all others give the eastern n: savana (śrāvana) ru, s, yr,37 porānā (*paurānā), guna (guna), and prāna (prāna) in yr. But we have sūvana, etc., in kpb. In terminations, all versions have only n, but kph (and the Mysore version) has 30. This form is not known in the north-west so far as the Asokan inscriptions go.
Its appearance can be explained only as emanating from the king's speech, The cerebral in this word is clearly due to the influence of the cerebral in udura, cf. khndaki ca udārā ca pakamaritu ti. Bhattiprāļu has 8th >th in yothi (yoşthi), but once th in gothi, cf. Phil. Ind. p. 224, 226, 229, and 225; also cf. kūnitha (kuniştha), p. 220. This is the reading of BARUA; BLOCỤ reads ryutha Bhattiproļu also has th in
yathi (Phil. Ind. p. 221). 34. It has been already shown in the paper dealing with the Mysore versions that
we have eastern » for the non-castern y; also cf, above p. 86. 35. The forms diyachiya etc. above p. 86 would suggest that the north-western forma
should be viyutha with the development of y after i. The preservation of the cluster vy shows the western influence, cf. below p. 89. With this cf. later Māhārāştri vuttha and Jain Māh. pavuttha, PISCHEL §. 302. vivutha could as well come from vi + *uşta and correspond exactly to *viyutha of the north-west (cf. the above f.n.); but as this is made difficult by the absence of the cerebral in vivutha, I am inclined to look upon vivutha as a mistake for vivutha, just as vyitha in the Mysore version has been suggested in the previous
paper to be a mistake for vyutha. 37. yr once gives sūvana also.
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