Some Topics in the Development of OIA MIA NIA

Author(s): H C Bhayani
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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10. Arpiration of non-aspirate stops
(1) A list of instances
There is weighty evidence, it seems to me, for recognizing a tendency in Prakrit phonology, presumably dialectal, to aspirate a non-aspirate stop under the influence of a subsequent -5- (immediate or mediate) in the word-stem. Such an explanation of irregular aspiration in a number of cases dispenses with hypothetical sourceforms which the scholars have been forced to assume to account for them. The following list based on Pischel. ($ 209, 210) and a few other sources is presented here as evidence for the phonological tendency specified. Sk.
Pk. panasa
phaṇasaparusa
pharusa- (also Pali) paraśu
pharasu- (also Pali) prsata
phusaa-/ phusia- (Pali phusita-) prāśuka
phāsua- (Pali phāsuka) bisa
bhisa- (also Pali) bisini
bhisini brsi
bhisi (also pali) To these cases the following are to be added : Sk.
Pk.
kāsa
khāsa
grāsa pāsa nikasapāṁsanadursa busa
ghāsaphāsanighasa (through *nigasa-), nihasaphamsaņa*dhussa- (Turner, 6502) *bhusa- (Turner, 9293)