Retention of Medical Consonents in Grammar of Ardhamagadhi by Hermann Jacobi

Author(s): K R Chandra
Publisher: ZZ_Anusandhan

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Prefa, ailela, confefa (Future, III Sg.) कजति, कत्थति, कीरति, घेप्पति, छिज्जति, तप्पति, दिस्सति, बुज्झिज्जति, qald, Fafa (Passive, III Sg.) जीवितुं (Infinitive)
d, GAN (Past Passive) अतियच्च (Absolutive) arrafa, ghrafa, grafa, atafa (Casual, III Sg.) परितप्पमाण (Present Participle) अतिवाएज्जा (Optative) D=<":976 (917 t o 915)
The above usages that are quoted from the grammar of Jacobi sufficiently prove that the Amg. Prakrit was distinct not only in morphology but in its phonological composition also from Saurasenī and Mahārāșțrī and it resembled Pāli in certain respects and was an archaic language. But no Prākrit grammarian (including Hemacandra) and even modern scholars (authors of Prākrit grammar) have treated Amg. separately with the distinct phonological nature of its vocables and usages.
R. Pischel has utilized the text of Ācārānga edited by H. Jacobi along with his grammar of Jaina Prākrit but hel' has in his grammar not at all specified that the archaic Amg. retained sometimes or optionally the medial consonants (see Para No. 17, 18 and 19) and further he has not included in his grammar the usages mentioned above from Jacobi's grammar while explaining the rules of Prākrit grammar and that of Amg. In his grammar one will be surprised to find that he has quoted under Amg. the converted Mahārāşțrī forms of the Amg. usages mentioned by Jacobi. This calls for emendation of his grammar as far as the Amg. language is concerned because generally there is no phonological difference between the vocables of Ardhamågadhī and Mahārāștrī in his grammar.