Nirgrantha-1

Author(s): M A Dhaky, Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre

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Vol. 1-1995
Editing of Ancient....
dropping of medial consonants has gone high, indeed up to 30% to 35% and the voicing of unvoiced consonants is near about 17%. Dental nasal n-is initially cerebralised into n- up to 100% and medially -n- into -n- up to 75%. This tendency of cerebralisation of -n-into -n-is traced in the South and West. And in the later centuries it spreads to other regions of India 0
5. Phonological changes in the Isibhāsiyāirii
Isibhāsiyāim" is regarded as one of the oldest of the Ardhamāgadhi texts along with the Acārānga, the Sūtrakrtānga, the Uttarādhyayana and the Daśavaikālika. The state of phonological changes in this work is quite different from that encountered in other older Jaina canonical texts in the Ardhamāgadhi. An analysis of the data from some select chapters No. 1, 2, 3, 5, 11, 29 and 31 reveals that an average of dropping, voicingunvoicing, and retention is 11 to 35%, 7 to 22% and 45 to 81% respectively. The chapter-wise analysis is as follows:
chs
01 102
03
05
11
29
31
Total
27 12
05 03
27 32
07 01 19 27
22 | 49
28
71 15 140 226
82
208
93 459 760
61
137
62
Total 1100
45
146
77
139
The percentage of phonological changes in these chapters is as follows :
chs
01
02
03
05
| 11
29
31 Average
27
11
27
18 22
27 | 04
3531 2007
07
03
27.4% 12.2% 60.4%
The position of medial -t- in these chapters is as follows :
tage I RI
68
100
85
72
73
5 2
79%
6. The position of phonological changes in the Ācāränga edited by W. Schubring', the oldest book of the Ardhamāgadhi canonical literature, is quite different from the Isibhāsiyāim. In it the dropping of medial consonants is more than 50%, a state which