Mahavira Jain Vidyalay Suvarna Mahotsav Granth Part 1

Author(s): Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya Mumbai
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay

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genuineness of the forms, as he put much reliance upon the text of Gune, that represented one as an uninflected word and the other as an inflected. Here it is necessary to consider whether Alsdorf is justified in accepting the text of Gune as correct and attributing to the uninfected word the appearance of an inflected form by emendation. A little reflection shows that the text of Gune is not much reliable, because the words, which ought to have preserved rhyme owing to their being the latter portions of two hemistiches of a verse, have neglected it altogether-a fact that can scarcely be overlooked. Further the agreement between Gune and Jacobi regarding the acceptance of one of the two forms as non-inflected strongly speaks for the assumption of the same as such. So Alsdorf's emendation appears to be uncalled-for and, according to our estimate, the same does not serve Alsdorf's purpose of refuting the occurrence of non-inflected gen. in Ap., for which he has made so strenuous efforts.
Here the following fact too should be taken into consideration. As we come to learn from Jacobi, Ksemarāja's commentary upon the Upadeśasaptatikā contains 353 Ap. stanzas, which possess many uninflected forms. Among the latter though such forms, which represent the nom. and acc. cases, show a palpable preponderance, the stems conveying the sense of the genitive are not negligible. Again, as we learn from the same source, like the Bhavisattakahā the Nemiņāhacariu too shows the sporadic use of the non-inflected gen, in Ap. (Introduction to Sanat., p. XXIII).
We like to point out further that in his introduction to the Sandeśa-rāsaka H. C. Bhayani took up the problem and discussed it in some detail. He believes that during the later days of Pkt. the inherent tendencies of the speech were such that the old inflexions, obtained traditionally, were fast disappearing and making the language shorn of terminational elements. The disintegration of the old morphological system paved the way for the use of the stem-forms in all numbers and cases-a phenomenon which is remarkably found in the old Märwāri speech, commonly known as Dingal. Such a situation surely helps one to surmise that the tendency, of which we find wide application in some NIA speech, begins to sprout in Ap., where the nom. acc. and gen. alone according to the grammarians shake off terminations. So Bhayani could not lend his support to the view of Alsdorf, however convincing might his arguments be (Sandeśa-rāsaka, Intr. § 51, p. 26)
Now let us examine the verses, which are assumed to have