Some Topics in the Development of OIA MIA NIA

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

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karai
sāhai
sisai dahai :
dajjhai bamdhai
bajjhai chimdai
chijjai bhamjai
bhajjai
kijjai Quite obviously, for such a variety of forms no general rules can be formulated. This lack of any obvious principle to correlate the forms of the active and passive stems resulted in comfusing the users' sense of the structure of those forms i.e. the identification of the root and the formative. This was of course, as we shall see further below, aided also by the changes in the past passive patriciple formation as well as in the net-work of and cross linkings (formal and semantic) within the system of the verbal forms as a whole. As a result numerous passive verbal forms came to be re-analysed and their final parts acquired the value of a formative. From one (or more than one) stem/ stems that was/were in frequent or familiar use they spread to other stems, replacing the earlier end-syllables. In what follows we will attempt to deal with such renovations and figure out the likely process of their formation.
6.
1.
-VV- replacing -jjIn the case of the stems illustrated above under 4.3 (ii) , 4 (ii), 6,7(ii) 8 (ii) 9 and 11 (ii), the passive stems came to be interpreted as formed by reduplicating the final consonant of the active stem : mumc : mucc-, bhamj-: bhajj-, gan : gann, limp : lipp-, ārambh: ärabbh-gam : gamm-, has- : hass-. So on the analogy of, say, the chain
gamai : gaam : gammai