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Pañcākhyānaka' (composed in 1199). See the glossary in the Harvard Oriental Series edition No. 11 (p. 276, 1. 15). For the present, the period of currency of the word can be fixed as from 11th to 14th century.
We may also note here a few interesting forms and constructions from the MC.
The possessive suffix -574-2 is found in the forın 37071522101 (Mūlasuddhi, Gāihā 26) and garaagfe (3, 41).
_ धिसि घिसि (3, 120) deriving from धिगसि घिगसि, and meaning fan fast occurs several times in Haribhadra's Apabhramśa epic Nemināhacariu composed in 1160 A.D. It occurs in other Prakrit works also composed in or about the twelfth century.
The possessive suffix -275- (SH. 8, 2, 159; Pischel's Comparative Grammar of Prakrit Languages, § 600) is found in URI (v. 1. Afgan) (20, 18) ‘those having wine' and ##SAT (20, 19) 'those having meat'. Its connotation here is nearer to Hindi 'vālā, Gujarati ‘vaļa.
Za qua fe (6, 13) 'the hot summer gusts blow'. cf. Guj. लू वाय छे in the same sense.
III. From Puhaicamdacariya of Sāntisūri (1105 A.D.)3
Puhaicamdacariya is linguistically noteworthy because of its liberal use of Diśya words. Some of these words were known to 1. This has been already noted by me on p. 104 of my introdu
ction to the Sardeśarāsaka. 2. See H. C. Bhayani, “Three Old Marathi Suffixes’, Vidya, 12,
2, 1969, 4-10. To the forms with the possesive -57- collected there from Early Prakrit literature, grafica 'belonging to the hostile forces' occuring in the Niśitha Cūrņi of Jinadāsa is to
be added. 3. Ed. by Ramiņikvijaya Muni, Prakrit Text Society Series no.
16. 1972.
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