Book Title: Prakrit Dhammapada
Author(s): Benimadhab Barua, Sailendranath Mitra
Publisher: Satguru Publications

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________________ Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra www.kobatirth.orgAcharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir ( 38 ) end of a hypermetric stanza of six pâdas. Ours on the contrary forms, as can be seen, the first third of a stanza of that kind. It is obvious that the arrangement of our text is the best ; the half-verse mitle bhajaxsu, etc., connects itself, as badly as possible, with the sloka that precedes. c. The lower part of the letters having disappeared, the reading in the first påda, is not sure for all the characters ; after pedi ve may allow sadhara which will be well=the Pali santhär; but the top of the next character has not at all the appearance of a o, but rather of a 9. Did our text read padisadhar aguti ? d. Dat is, of course=dāntah, and nyarı=ācāra. We have already met with vilaşili (A?, 6). Our form is midway between that of Sanskrit and that of Pali vihāhiti. In Pali, besides the change of r(t): into k, which seems to surpass the iniddle level of phonetic degeneration in that dialect, we should uotice the spelling i for ya, which appears also to have been derived from a liabit of writing, more free and less regular than has generally prevailed with its literary fixity. Likewise has this only norinal form been partly supplanted by spellings like kūhasi, kähati, kāhunti side by side with kāhisi, kähiti, kähinti, which appear isolated and peculiar, 20 salabhunatimavea nañesa smibao sia añeşa smiliao bhikhu samadhi nadhikachati o CE. Dhammap., 365. a. For the character bh of salabhu, cf, A', note a. I need hardly renark that atimaññati should be understood in the sense of “to despise, to disdain". Childers and M. Max Müller have already corrected the slight oversight of M. Fausböll. h. I have discovered no means to distingnish a priori the m from the co i joint in compounds like tn, 19., 3m, MC. It is perhaps svihuo=xyrhayar, that ought to be reulThe instances we have alreuly cited, where p is changed into " (:1', %, uute (,) have induced me to think that it inight be the same here. But I do not For Private And Personal

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