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or in the AvN (vs. 197ab) :
auņāpannam juale puttāņā Sumangalā puņo pasave (AvH prasū
tavati). “Sumangalā gave birth to 49 twin sons" 43. The Av. cūrņi retains a form of the active past participle in -tavant, for which Pischel (8 569) gave a single example, namely putthavam from SPRS- in the Ayāranga with a passive meaning :
na ya... nhão, na ya bandhavehi vi ai-neham katavam (AvC 249, 11): "(When he was about to reject worldly life), (Vardhamāna) neither took a bath, nor had any excessive feeling of affection for his relatives”.
Finally, a last example will show how forms which were at first considered doubtful could later be well established when new texts were discovered and analysed. An indeclinable ending -7(y)a which can function as an imperfect, aorist of perfect had been mentioned by the main Prakrit grammarians 44, but no actual form were recognised in the texts until the Vasudevahiņdi provided undisputable cases (4 ex.) 45. The single instance found in the Canonical literature also came to light, namely Uttarajjhāyā 13.18d (triştubh) 46 :
(vayam...) vasīya (ct. avasāva, ușitau 47) Sovāga-nivesanesu almost glossed by the next verse (196):
... vutthā mu Sovāga-nivesanesu, “We lived in the hamlets of Śvapākas" [Jacobi].
More material has been sorted out from the Tarangavai (34 occurrences) 48. I shall only add my gleanings from the niryuktis. From the Sūyagada-nijjutti, we have (vs. 85ab) :
pucchimsu Jambu-ņāmo ajja-Suhammā tao kahesīya, “Jambūsvāmin asked, then the noble Sudharma said".
43. Other similar instances are : samuttāre with a subject in the plural, AvN 471 (ct. samuttāritavantau); pāse AvBh 1 (ct. drstavān); pesae AvBh 34 (ct. preșitavān); uvacchubhe "they threw" AvBh 67; bhave AvN 1150 (AvH chandasat vād abhūt); ĀvN 340, 516, Bh 59, 77, 109.
44. Reference in Pi § 466 : acchia, genhia, etc. 45. ALSDORF, BSOAS 8 (1935), p. 325 = Kleine Schriften, p. 62.
46. See L. ALSDORF, The Story of Citta and Sambhūta in Felicitation Volume presented to Prof. S. K. Belvalkar. Benares, 1957, p. 207, n. 1 = Kleine Schriften, p. 191, n. 1.
47. See Jaina-Agama-Series edition. Bombay, 1977, p. 145, n. 10. 48. BHAYANI, “Sambodhi" 7 (1978-79), p. 115.
