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perception of the division into the root-portion and the suffix portion was obscured or altogether lost. This created considerable confusion for the language-users, forcing them to seek and resort to handy, make-shift alternatives to recast this part of their internal grammar.
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3. The Prakrit medial cluster -cy- either became subject to anaptyxis (with -i- interpolated) or it underwent assimilation, the result depending upon the type of the preceding consonant in the cluster. Of these two treatments, the first gradually dominated, becoming productive and pervading. The forms resulting from phonological assimilation became subject to various analogical alterations.
labhyate > labhiyai > lahijjai (or lahiyai), for example, and similary developed forms yielded and fixed -ijj- or -iy- as the passive stem-formative suffix. On the other hand the process of assimilation created various strong forms, which were just the regular phonological tranformations of Sansktit passive forms.
The stem-final syllables of Sanskrit passive stems yielded through assimilation the stem-final syllables of Prakrit passive stems as follows:
-kkhy-> -kkh
-cy- > -CC
-jy
> -jj
-ny
> -nn
-ty
> -CC
-dy- > -jj
-dhy- > -jjh
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-py- > -pp
-bhy- > -bbh
-my-> -mm
syl-sy-/-sy--ss(-iśy-/-isy-/-isy- > -is-) -hy-> -jjh
Under the circumstances the original identity of the passive suffix was lost and in the case of most forms the root-portions of the active and passive forms could not be matched.
4. In accordance with the developments outlined above, the
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