Morphological Evidence For Dialectal Variety In Jaina Maharastri

Author(s): Nalini Balbir
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“The king is not aware of what Sakațāla will do : he will murder Nanda, and put Śrīyaka [his own son) as the king”. The Prakrit tradition, however, is quite corrupt :
Nando rāyā na vi jāņai jam Sagadālo karehii : rāya- Nandam māreviņu Siriyam rajje havehi tti. a. rāyā Nandu AvH 649b, 3, Devendra's ct. on Utt 29a, 1; b. kāhii ĀvH, Sagadālu karesai, DevUtt; c. rāya-Nandam is the reading of AvH; Nando rāyā, AVC II 184, 10 is obviously wrong; rāya Nandu, DevUtt; māreviņu Avc, mārettā ĀvH, DevUtt; d. įhavehii ĀvH; rajji thavesai DevUtt.
But the absolutive form is striking and has led K. R. Chandra to restore the verse as an ordinary Apabhramśa dohā:
Nandu rāyā na vi jāņai, jam Sagadālu kāhii rāyā-Nandam māreviņu, Siriya rajjě thavehii 68
Leaving aside these difficulties, both Apabhramsa absolutives in the aforesaid quotation have been reinterpreted in Haribhadra's tīkā : jāņeppi has become jāņemi, which makes very little sense ; māreviņu has been normalized as mārettā 69.
Occasionally, we come across a first person singular in -ami 70 : e.g. in the Mahānisīhasutta, niddahami 71. The narrative works and Canonical prose commentaries show the use of the declinable postpositions tanaya and ccaya attached to pronominal bases, and quite common in Apabhramsa : e.g. tujjha-ccaena AVC 468, 11-12 (versus AvH tumam atthāe), tassa ccayāni pottāni AvC II 289, 14, etc. 72; mama tanaenam AVC II 198, 12 (versus H m. kaenam) AVC II 196, 10, etc. 73
68. K. R. CHANDRA, Apabhramsa Passages in the Pre-Tenth Century Śretāmbara Prākrit-Sanskrit Works in Contributions of Jainism to Indian Culture. Ed. R. C. DWIVEDI. Varanasi, 1975, p. 31 (30-41).
69. Apabhramsa influence is also felt in "Digambara Prakrit”: see W. DENECKE, Digambara-Texte. Eine Darstellung ihrer Sprache und ihres Inhalts. Hamburg, 1922 (Diss.), p. 7 ff.; IDEM, Mitteilungen über Digambara-Texte. Festgabe für H. Jacobi. Bonn, 1926, p. 166 f.; W. SCHUBRING, Kundak unda echt und unecht, ZDMG 107 (1957). p. 567 = Kleine Schriften. Wiesbaden, 1977, p. 354.
70. Pi $ 454; TAGARE, op. cit., § 136, p. 286. 71. SCHUBRING, Mahānisiha, p. 90.
72. And AvH 295a, 8; 565b, 5. – On -cca( ya) which serves to build possessive adjectives in Marathi, see H. C. BHAYANI, Some Interesting Features of the Prākrit of the Nanapancamikahā BhV 12 (1951), p. 157, referring to Hemacandra's Prakrit Grammar 2.149, etc.
73. See L. A. SCHWARZSCHILD, Notes on two Postpositions of Late Middle IndoAryan : TAŅAYA and RESI, RESAMMI Bh V 19 (1959), p. 77-87; J. BLOCH, Application de la cartographie à l'histoire de l'indo-aryen. Paris, 1963, p. 6 ff.