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NOTES-VIII. i. 146-177.
146-147. These rules speak of the changes of g. facàsıविणोआ IS विकटचपेटाविनोदा. महमहिअ 15 प्रसृत; see iv. 78 below. 148-155. These rules describe the changes of . 155. धीर हरइ विसाओ, 1.2. धैर्य हरति विषादः .
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156-158. These rules describe the changes of art. 156. in words etc. is optionally changed to, and क and त occurring in words प्रकोष्ठ and आतोद्य are then changed to व. Thus प्रकोष्ठ becomes पवg and आतोद्य becomes आवज्ज. 159-164. These rules speak of the changes of . 165-175. This group of rules describes miscellaneous changes that take place in sk. words when they are turned into Prakrit. Thus in the first vowel i.e. a, together with the whole of the following syllable (consonant and vowel) is changed to g, and it is in this way that we get तेरस . In the same manner स्थविर becomes थेर and so forth.
166. विचकिल according to this rule becomes वेइल, but the form बिअइल is also found; eg . मुद्धविअइल्लपसूणपुञ्जा ( कर्पूरमञ्जरी, I.19) i. e. मुग्धविच किलप्रसूनपुञ्जा: •
170. The word gay is unknown to sk. language. fi explains it as अधम: जलजन्तुर्वा .
173. ऊज्झाओ, as the आदेश mentioned has ऊ it cannot be shortened even when it is followed by a conjunct.
176-271. These rules describe changes that consonants undergo in Prakrit.
176. This is an
and each of the three words (consonant) after a vowel, age, of a non-conjunct, and : non-initial, are to be borrowed in interpreting each subsequent Sutra.
177. The eight non-conjunct, non-initial consonants, ,, etc. occurring after a vowel, are generally dropped. This is one of the fundamental rules of Prakrit phonetics with farreaching consequences. etc., in a compound the first syllable of the second word may be regarded, at will and
