Sound Synthesis in Indo European Indo Iranian and Sanskrit

Author(s): Satya Swarup Mishra
Publisher: Ashutosh Prakashan Sansthan

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OLD INDO-AKYAN CONSONANT SYNTHESIS 51
C APPARENT EXCEPTIONAL FEATURES OF VEDIC SANDHI 95. Apparent exceptional features of Vedic Sandhi
Traditional Sanskrit Grammars take vedic peculiarities of sandhi as exceptional in comparison to the classical norm.
But vedic sandhi is more historical, whereas classical sanskrit shows several innovations.
Some important features of vedic sound-synthesis where it considerably differs from classical Sanskrit are shown below. Since they have already been included in pre. io is sections, they are just briefly mentioned here. 96. Accusative plural an, in, ūn, în > a, ir, ür, fr before vowels in vedic, but in classical Sanskrit they remain an, in, ün, and in respectively (vide 49 above). 97. ntch)/1(h)t(h) > mśc(h), mst(h), mșt(h) only in the historical forms in the vedic, which originally had a sibi. lant; e.g. nominative sg forms like gacchant-ca> gacchamś -ca ( original gaccants+ca), devān-t.ca > devāms-ca (original devāns+ca) etc. But in cl Skt the s (which was originally s of the ending acc -ns or nom -s) was extended to forms which were not historically justified, i.e. which did not contain s originally; e. g. kasmin + cit
> kasmimś-cit. 98, In classical Skt a is always lost after e, o. In vedic it is often retained; e.g. classical tevadan < te + avadan; devo’gacchat < devo + agacchat; but vd sünave agne < sūnave-t-ugne, devāső apturaḥ > devāso tapturah.
99. Sandhi of an upasarga with a noun stem or verb, often show internal sandhi in Vedic. In classical Skt such forms always show external sandhi; e.g.