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SANDESARĀSAKA
($ 67,76 end); (f) genitive constructions like a HUGE ($ 76, p. 43), (g) words like H, RFA, fa, fet, tala, a, ATET, 3456, 16a, , gt-these features characteristically belong to the Old Western Rājasthāni, while (a) development of go into a ($ 34); (b) loss of neuter ($ 50); (c) use of the bare stem in all cases (8 51 B. 1. end); (d) s-absolutives; (e) words with the pleonastically prefixed to ($ 48. ii), as also the words aE15, E, 346_these features are peculiar to the northerly section of the Owr., as one can judge from their occurrence in Dingal or Early literary Mārwārī.
Lastly there are a few facts which clearly indicate the influence af the then dialects of the Midland (Early Braj, Hindi, etc.) over the language of the Sr. Thus (a) loss of an intervocal व (833 C.); (b) agentives like संजीवयर, उल्हावयर as compared with Hindi लुटेरा, चितेरा etc.; (c) the compound absolutive दहेवि करि (in a Dohā) point to such Midland influence.
As suggested at relevant places (e. g., p. 19, note 1) the language of the Dohās of the Sr. differs in several points from that of the main portion of the text and it is closely allied to (though more advanced than) the language of the Dohās of Hemacandra.
II METRES
§ 1. Before we proceed to treat the metres of the Sr., a general note on the differing Ap. metrical traditions is called forth. Besides the two well-known works, Hemacandra's छन्दोऽनुशासन and the प्राकृतपैङ्गल, we have now five other large or small treatises—all published by Prof. H. D. VELANKAR-dealing with Pk. and Ap. metres. They are the fame of Virahāńka, the a2F78FCL of Svayambhū, the Target of Nandiyaddha, the anonymous #fajor and the da: Fray of Ratnasekhara'. Among these the work of Virahānka (as also of Nandiyaddha, if at all) treats a very small number of Ap. metres properly so called. Though dealing with the same subject, the above-named works widely differ from one another in their range and province and on the strength of certain provisional criteria—such as, the definition and nomenclature of the commonly occurring metres 1 W. SCHUBRING's edition of the last-mentioned work (see Beiträge zur
indischen Verakunde, Z. D. M. G. 75, p. 97 ff.) is not accessible to me.
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