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TULASI-PRAJNA, June, 1990
Lastly, I have therefore discussed the problem histrocially. I have tried my best to trace some of the very dominent features of Māgaḍhi from the Vedic times. And it is to our utter surprise, we find that some of the genuine Magadhi features can be traced from some of the Sikṣās of Sanskrit language. These Sikṣas normally deal with the features of Sanskrit, say, for example, change of y into j, and accidentally this feature is also found in Prakrit though not in Māgadhi. In this way, in this short limited space and time, I have tried my best to discuss the problem and have come to a conclusion which could help the scholars while editing a Magadhi passage of the Sanskrit dramas.
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References:
1. For the quotations of these authors, vide S. R. Banerjee's Eastern School of Prakrit Grammarians, Calcutta, 1977, pp. 7-8 and appendix A (pp. i-ii).
2. For this Vide, NS (ch. XVII), DR (II. 58-61). SD (ch. VI), RS (III. 299-305), NLR (pp. 5, 90 ed. Dillon), NC (pp. 61-62 ed. Puridāsa), Şad-C (introduction), Pṛthvidhara on Mṛcchakatika, R. Pischel, GPS (§ 23). W.E. Clark, Māgadhi and Ardhamāgadhi, JAOS, 44, 1924, pp. 110-114, A.B. Keith, Sanskrit Drama, 1924, pp. 335-337, P.L. Vaidya, on the use of prakrit Dialects in Sanskrit Dramas, ABORI, Vol. XXXIII, 1952, pp. 15-25.
3. P.L. Vaidya, ABORI, vol. XXXIII, 1952, p. 19.
4. Prof. D.C. Bhattacharyya fixed A.D. 1500 as the date of Subhankara, vide Samgita-Damodara edited by G. Shastri and G.G. Mukhopadhyay, Calcutta, 1960, introduction page 14.
5. In the edition of Calcutta, e-kara is printed as ai-kära (p. 77) and in the introduction (p. 32) it is said 'in magadhi the nominative always ends in ai'. It appears that the ai-kāra should be e-kara (and hence emended by me as such), because the nominative singular of a-base ends in e in Magadhi.
6. Formation of Magadhi, Calcutta, 1967, pp. 4-7,
7. Satya Ranjan Banerjee's Vararuci's Prakrit prakāśa, 1975, pp. 26-27 (introduction),
and Eastern school of Prakrit grammarians, 1977, p. 37.
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