Saurseni and other Prakrits in the Bhagavati Aradhana

Author(s): Jagat Ram Bhattacharya
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In Bhag. some remnants of e-ending words formulated in nom sing. of masculine a-stem are found such as, limage, arihe (66) etc. Sanskrit jananti becomes yāṇamti in Magadhi. The sutra ja-dya-yam- yaḥ (Hc.4. 292) indicates that becomes Y in Mh. Vr. (11.4), ki (5.87), Pu (12.5), RT. (2.2.14) have also suggested the same for Magadhi.
6. Treatment of root bhu.
Hc. in the fourth chapter of his Prakrit grammar has prescribed some forms of the root bhu as adesa. The sutra is bhuver ho huva havah (4.60). It indicates that the root bhu has three forms in Prakrit and these are ho. huva and hava. Hc. considers this rule of Prakrit as an optional in Sauraseni. He, in the sutra bhuvo bhah (4.269), clearly mentions that in Saur, bh is a regualr feature in this context. Vr. and other grammarians have also the same opinion (see Vr. 12.12, Pu. 9.78, Ki. 55.78 Rt. 2.1.26, and Mk. 9.108, 137). Although this feature can be found sporadically in Bhag.but some of the features of Mah. are also available in the text. for example, hoi (4,6,9,55), havai (8.9), hodi (40,73,102), havadi (103), in imperative hojja (73), and in optative have derived from Skt. bhavet (3,4,6,643,791,803,1000, 1101). In Prakrit along with its dialects and subdialects jja and jjå have been prescribed for optative mood. But here, in case of have, the influence of Sanskrit is found.
दर्शन दिग्दर्शन
In Bhag. the application of gerund is also very interesting. It does not follow properly the rule of Saur. For example Skt. krtvā>kāuna (206,563), kiccä (688), Skt. jnātvā>ṇāuṇa(9), śrutvā>soduna (682), socca (696), sunitta (616, 679), bhuktvå bhocca (692,693). labdhva> laddhuṇa (52), viharittă, virådhayitva (15), dittha (17), parityaktvā >praiccittà (239) etc. To justify the characteristic features of Saur., we have to emphasize mainly on these points. Firstly,
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