Sambodhi 2012 Vol 35

Author(s): J B Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

Page 89

Vol. XXXV, 2012
Palaeography As Found In Budhism And Its Antiouity
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of the preceding word, when it denotes a proprietorship mark on the ears of cattle, but not when the words are fa, 3781, fut, fya; FFA, fys, a and af .
faal-fan-farm1–7941–44 f -as-767-for-falfa-falfa-afet-4f65-de-fes2E-112041-519-alabefalecenog 1 3.2.21
The affix 2 comes after the verb 'to make' when the following words are in composition with it - दिवा (by day), विभा (light), निशा (night), प्रभा (splendour), भा: (light), कार (work), अन्त (end), अनन्त (endless), आदि (beginning), बहु (many), नान्दी (benediction), किम् (what), लिपि (script), लिवि (script), aft (oblation), ft (devotion), and (agent), faz (painting), 27 (field), जंघा, बाहु, अहर्, यत्, तत्, धनुष् and अरुस्.
55-7601-49-94-565-35-f4r04-4-494-HICHIER 1 4.1.49 (4976i fargefaarit ar.)
The augment 31130h is added to the Proper Nouns 5-s, abu, 4a, pra, रुद्र and मृड and to the words हिम (snow), अरण्य (a forest), यव (barley), यवन (Yavana), Hica (maternal uncle) and 34R (a preceptor) before the feminine affix 34.
यवन here becomes यवनानी in feminine gender and stands for the script of the Yavanas. He has referred to a number of his predecessors who had their independent opinion on certain rules. Some of them are as followsApishali, Kashyapa, Galava, Gargya, Chakravarman, Bharadvaja, Yaska, Shakalya, Shakatayana, Senaka, Sphotayana and so on. Max Muller could not see all these matters about writing system in Panini's Ashtadhyayi and he made the above statement.
Yaskacharya (6th century B.C.) also quotes in his Nirukta his predecessor etymologists whose names are as follows- Audumbarayana, Agrayana, Arunabha, Aupamanyava, Gargya, Galava, Kathakya, Kautsa, Charmashiras, Taitiki, Maudgalya, Varshyayani, Shakalya, Shatabalaksha, Shakatayana, Shakapuni and Sthaulasthvin.
Looking to the number of these predecessors, we can apparently presume that their times are spread over one thousand years, if not more, before Yaska and Panini.