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C. Sandhi. In Sankrit certain changes take place in certain groups of letters when they come together e.g. and r together become gas in a + =fare; a followed by - becomes - as in जगत् +नाथ जगन्नाथ and sc on. The technical name for such changes is Sandhi which Sanskrit grammarians treat under three heads, viz., Vowel Sandhi, Consonant Sandhi and Visarga Sandhi. Now in Ardha-Mágadhí Visarga does not exist, and no two different consonants come togetherl, hence only the vowel Sandhi remains, and that too is not compulsory. Internal Sandhi?, however, is always observed.
The following are the chief types of Sandhi :(i) 7+8= 1 wita + auftauftaranter " Jíva and Ajíva."
+afa=tifa and also.' (ii) 2 +# followed by a conjunct consonants = 8
HCU + =ATOja 'lasting till death', ' fatal. 397+*=JHTER' Northern half'.
a+wifiy=afèu • It is not' (iii) *+1=5
Try or tra+rfa=ergfa a royal sage'.
HET+Ife=afa. The great sage'. (iv) + followed by a conjunct consonant = { (1) For exceptions see p. x. • (2) i, o, between the final letter of a base and the initial
Jottor of an affix. It is distinguished from External Sandhi which takes place between the final letter of
& word and the initial lettor of the next word. (3) See Note 6 p. I.
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