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PRAVACANASĀRA.
. : TREATMENT OF CONJUNCT CONSONANTS.- Just to have a glimpse of the treatment of conjunct consonants, initial as well as medial, some typical cases from Pravacanasāra are put together here : itthī=strī (I, 44), gilāna=glāna (III, 30) gilāna in Pali, cāga=tyāga (III, 20 ), chudhā= lopudha (III, 52 ) Ichudhā in Pali, ņānam=jñānam (I, 19), niddha=snigdha (II, 71 ) Bhāsa has siniddha, thāvara=sthāvara. (II, 90 ) phāso (v. l., paraso)=spars'ah (1, 56 ) Bhāsa has parisa, mansuga=s'mas'ru (-la) (III, 5). Then some cases of assimilated, non-initial conjuncts may be noted : ajjhattha=adhyātma (3) (III, 73 ), attha and attha=arthu (I, 10, 18, 26, etc.), appā=ātmā (I, 7; II, 33), adā=ātmā (I, 8; II, 33 ), wssāsa= uccl.vāsa (III, 38 ). This form --Ussāsat is in the mouth of Vidūsaka in the fragments of As'vaghoşa's dramas, and Dr. Lüders calls it a form of Old S'auraseni. chaddiyā=charditā (III, 19), the form vicchaddams occurs in the fragments of As'vaghosa's dramas, and it is regarded as a Saurasenī feature; taccam=tattvam (II, 16), taccanhū=tattvajñaḥ (II, 105 ), dansang=dars'una (II, 100 ), dhovva (v, I., dhaüvva)=dhrauvya (II, 8), pakichina=praksīna (I, 19), pajjaya and pajjāya=paryāya (I, 10; II, 1), põggala or puggala=pudgala (1, 34; II, 40; II, 76), puvva=pūrva (II, 47 ) Pali pubba. Bhāsa has puruva, and Hema. requires purava in Saurasenī, māhappam=mālātmyam (I, 51 ), vacchaladā=vatsalatā (III, 46 ), Taddlamāna= Vardhamāna (I, I ), savvanhü= sarvajñaḥ (I, 16 ), samthānas sansthāna (II, 60). The simplification of a conjunct is, at times, achieved, by anaptyxis: arahamta=arhan (1, 3), ariho=arhan (I, 6843 ), kiriyā=kriya (I, 21; II, 24), chadumattha=cladmastha (III, 56), daviya=dravya (II, 62), pariyamta=paryanta (II, 40 ), rayana=ratna (1, 30) another reading is radana : Bhāsa has both these forms;' -vīriya=vīrya (I, 2), suluma=sūksma (II, 75; III, 17*2, 24*12; once sulama III, 24*11).
DECLENSION.–To have some idea of the morphological scheme of the
ravacanasārd, some typical forms are noted here; Masculine nouns. Singular: Nom, dhammo (1, 7); Acc. uvadesam (1,88 ); Inst. Icālena (III, 75), gurunā (III, 7); Dat. niggamatthāe (?) (III, 17*I ); Abl. carittādo (I, 6, see II, 37 for similar forms ); Gen. bhāvassa, (II, 92); Loc. loge (I, 68 ); dānammi (1, 69), cariyamhi (1, 79). In Pali we have dhanume, dhammassin and dhammamhi, and the Girnar edict of As'oka has Loc. sg. in -amhi. Plural: Nom. samanā (III, 10 ), isino (I, 33 ); Acc. titthayare (I, 2), mohādī (I/1.. Inst.-vihavehim (I, 6), šggahādihim (I, 59 ), and sometimes without anume Gen. surānam (1,71 ), sāhūnam (I, 4); Loc. suhesus (I, 62). Neute be Singular : davvam (1,8); Acc. jagam (I, 29); Loc. jagadi (I, 26 44- $
1 Geiger: Pali L. Spr., p. 67. 2 Printz: B. P., p. 12. 3 Ibidem p. 12. 4 Luders: Bruchstricke Buddhistischer Dramen, p. 45. 5 Ibidem p. 47. 6 Printz: B. P., pp. 5 and 13. 7 Ibid. p. 12. 8 Geiger: Pali L. Spr. p. 79. 9 Woolner: Asoka Text and Glossary, part I, p. xxi. .
