Some Topics in the Development of OIA MIA NIA

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

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Sk. raghunätha, Old Guj. rughanātha. This is current as in Modern Gujarati personal name. Mod Guj. naguro, nugaro 'he who is without a guru'.
In Pk. dhidā, dhudā (Pischel. § 392) from Sk. duhitā daughter' u in the first syllable is assimilated to i in the second syllable or alternatively, i in the second syllable is assimilated to u in the first sylleble. So also in H.ũgali from Sk. Pk. amguli, the initial a is assimilated to to u in the second syllable.
REFERENCES Jayant Kothari, Madhyakālin Gujarāti Šabdakoś, 1995 R. Pischel, Comparative Grammar of the Prakrit Languages
(English Translation). L. P. Tessitori, Grammar of Old Western Rajasthani. R.L. Turner, Comparative Dictionary of Indo-Aryan Lan
guages (EIAL) Taruņaprabha's Şadavasyaka-bālāvabodha (dated 1355 A.C.)ed. P. B. Pandit, 1976. Śali-sūri, Virāta-parva (published in Gujararāsāvali, ed. M.C.
Modi and others, (dated 1422 A.C.), 1956.