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GRAMMAR
two cases having their cuding unnasalised. There does not occur a singlo casc of enlarged' nom. sing. form of neuter 3-stems with the ending 343.
$ 6. (+) Pres. indic. 1.sing. In 17 cases all the three Mss. read the ending as Pers, only once they agree in reading Cari. Individualy, onen two lissliare , and thrice only one (C). Thus bern also the tendency to clrop the Anunāsika is overwhelming
$ 7. (5) lres indic, 3, plur. The following tigures indicate the comparative strength of different variants for the endings :
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11 Quite casually some one Ms. reads for peor confusing the third person singular forms in 35 with the plural forms in °3rš, nasalizes them. B has some 19 cases of pres. 3. sing. in 3.
$ 8. (6) Individual words. Once (1540) all the Miss. read 35, once (117) two and twice (650, 1600) only one, while thrice (800, 92a, 1341) they agree in realing . So also the second person singular pronoun appears its de at all its occurrences, while once (776) we have the molern form ă (Ba). The pronominal forms 73 74*, ag 76, 12-4, 15 816 etc. (more than a dozen occurrences) too appear without their final vowel nasalized. Further are to be mentioned to 770, 1836 etc. (in coinbination with other particles: 121d, Beer (B - 916); (CFE) 121a; the locative adverbs at 1020, Free 412 (cf. lIc. II 161); 73 740, 730, 99«. Such forms without the nasal mark are frequent in the Ap. texts composed in Eastern India as can be seen from the Doli-Bo-. There also we come across 7, h ete, See SHAHIDULLAII, p. 5; JACOBI : San. p. XXVIII mid.
Interchange between and a $ 9. Writing y for or vice versa is not uncommon for the orthography of the Jain Mss. in general. But in the Mss. of the Sr. such cases are numerous and what is specifically noteworthy, all the three Mss. show a remarkable agreement in having 7 or at a particular place. This latter fact would suggest the probability of having in fact phonetically
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