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NOTES-VIII. ii. 4-1.
26-30. Rules about area.
31-36. Rules about the gender of word..
37. About faf.
38-43. Miscellaneous.
44-175.Vowel changes.
177-271. Consonant changes.
VII. 11.
This q treats of the changes that conjunct consonants undergo in Prakrit. The fundamental rules above the changes of conjuncts are: (a) Conjuncts with dissimilar members, e.g. 9, a,, etc., undergo a process of assimilaक tion, i.e. one of the members assimilates the other. The grammarian however says that once member of the conjunct is dropped and the other is then doubled (11. 89). (b) If the second or the fourth letter of a af is doubled, e.g., or a, the conjunct would not be or a but a or a, 1.e., the second letter is substituted by the first and the fourth by the third letter, of the same f. (11. 90 ). (c) The quantity of the word is maintained as before either by lengthening the preceding vowel if a member of the conjunct is dropped or by shortening a long vowel in case the conjunct is kept intact.
1-88. These rules give various substitutes for conjunct The rules are arranged not according to conjunct but according to the substitute, etc. Whenever a conjunct is substituted by a letter, it is doubled according to the fundamental rules, viz., ii. 89 and ii. 90.
1. This is an af
and runs up to ii. 115.
4. and in a substantive are changed to, but in adjectives by .
