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Some Aspects of Vowel Contraction in Prakrit

By S. N. Ghosal

Vol. 37 · No. 2 & 3June & Sept. 1961pp. 141–152English

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  • “Pischel states' that in Apabhratsa the base-forms are often used as inflected words 10 the nominative and accusative cases both singular and plural and such forms very often shorten or lengthen their final vowel in compliance with the exigency of rime and metre.”
  • “The view of optional lengthening and shortening of “the final vowels in Ap. is in fact an errvor, which 15 fundamental and fatal for the understanding of the speech,”
  • “We are in favour of घाट first, because vowel assimilation has its beginning in ત very early period, but the loss of the intervocal b 15 in fact ત peculiarity of Modern Aryan languages sporadically appearing in Ap— or late ~-Ap speeches.”

Works cited in this article

  1. Grammatik der Prikrit-sprachen § 364
  2. Adpabbrariia Studien p. 6.
  3. Apabbramia Studien p.7.
  4. Phonology of the Modern Indo-Aryan Vernaculars (ZDMG vol 49)
  5. Prakrta-painigala

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  • Sanatkumaracaritam
  • Harivarnsa-parina
  • Bbhavisattakaba
  • Materialen zur Kenntniss des Apabbrasa
  • Harivamsapurana 4

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Vol. 37 · No. 2 & 3
93–104Kashmir's Contribution to the Expansion of Buddhism in the Far EastJan Yun Hua101–126Astronomical Evidence on the Age of the Rgveda105–110Place of Rajagrha in the History of Early JainismSanti Mukhopadhyay111–125The Democratic Attitude of the BuddhaNand Kishore Prasad126–134Yama and Chinese EschatologySukumari Bhattacharji135–140Coins of the Dark AgeAdris Banerji141–152Some Aspects of Vowel Contraction in PrakritS. N. GhosalCurrent article153–159The Place of Tulu in the Dravidian Family of LanguagesU. Venkatakrishna Rao160–164An Unpublished Copper Plate Grant of V.S. 1165 from RajasthanRatna Chandra Agrawala165–176The GarudasSadashiv A. Dange177–182India's Oversea Trade as known from the Buddhist CanonMadan Mohan Singh183–188History of Khandela189–191Two Prakrit Verses on Weighing ScalesMoreshwar G. Dikshit192–196Parsoji BhonslaJohn A. Ramalingam197–202Samvatsaras in the Parivrajaka InscriptionsParmeshwari Lal Gupta203–205Kotera Copper Plate Inscription of Malugideva: Saka Year 1106Bal Chandra Jain206–206On a Verse of the Pila InscriptionsDasharatha Sharma207–209KalapriyanathaShiva Shankar Awasthi210–214On the Interpretation of a passage of HarsacaritaAshok Chatterjee215–216A Newly Discovered Inscription of Samanta Singh of MewarRam Chandra Rai

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