Book Title: Mahavira Jain Vidyalay Suvarna Mahotsav Granth Part 1
Author(s): Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya Mumbai
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay
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190 : SHRI MAHAVIRA JAINA VIDYALAYA GOLDEN JUBILEE VOLUME
We quote certain forms from the Praksta-paingala and make an attempt to show the use of non-inflected forms in all cases. The forms are selected at random. Nom. phala, bhuangama (I. 6), abuha (I. 11), nisanka (I. 72), surasari
(I. 111), gamga (1. 119), karta (I. 135), vira Hammira (I. 147) etc. Acc. ņāva (I. 9), samtāra, kugati (I. 9), sampaa, suha (I. 98), duritta
(I. 104), pakkhara, bandha (I. 106), khagga, karabāla (I. 106),
abhaavara (I. 111), citta (I. 135) etc. Inst. manimamta (I. 6), sahaja (I. 7), koha (I. 92), pakkhara pakkhara
(I. 106), attha (I. 116), navakesu (I. 135), pāabhara, (I. 147) etc. Abl. mitta, bhicca (1. 37), uāsīņa, sattu (I. 38) etc. Gen. bāha, kohānala, sulatāna (I. 106), kaņņa (I. 126), mecha (I. 147),
sarasaï (I. 153), raanipahu (I. 163) etc. Loc. rana (I. 87), adhamgå, giva (I. 98), raņa, dia (I. 106), naaņa, gala,
sira (I. 111), sīsa (I. 119), jujjha (I. 126), dūra digantara, sabbadesa
(I. 135), gaana.(I. 166) etc.
While accounting for the loss of inflections of cases in Ap. we should take certain facts into consideration. Jacobi suggests that in Pāli and Pkt. the final sound of a word became gradually weak and it very often submitted to the overwhelming influence of the initial vowel of the following word. This tendency of weakening of the final sound became so forceful that in Ap. there was total elision of the final vowel occasionally-sometime before an initial vowel with indefinite quantity and sometime even without it (e. g., Ap. narem < Pkt. narena). But this feature, of which the first beginning was noted in Ap., became a characteristic of the New Indo-Aryan speeches in general in the subsequent period (Sanatkumāracarita, Grammatik § 8). Now, as the elision of a vowel demands that there should be the shortening of a long vowel prior to its final disappearance Ap. shows this feature too in a number of declensional forms. We may cite a few instances for the clarification of the matter:
Stem deva, nom. sing. Ap. devu < Pkt. devo. Stem deva, loc. sing. Ap. devi < Pkt. devē. Stem giri, nom. sing. Ap. giri < Pkt. girī. Stem sāhu, nom. sing. Ap. sāhu, < Pkt. sähū. Stem muddhā, nom. sing. Ap. muddha < Pkt. muddha.
This clearly demonstrates that in Ap. the final syllable sustained considerable weakening, as a result of which the final vowel occasionally under suitable circumstances totally disappeared.
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