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becomes iha in Sankrit by making the sutra iha hacor hasya. 4. On the treatment of the word Atma
The Skt. word Ātmā. has different forms in Prakrit. Hc. in his sutra bhasmātmanoh po vā (2.5.1) says that ātmā becomes appă, and by assimilation through both the sutras adhao nanayām (2.78) and anādau sesādesauoudvitvam (2.89) it becomes attā. So, both appā and atta are in vogue in Mah. But attā is, probably, the ideal form in Saur. Hence, the form attă becomes ādā, firstly, tgriygh cinoensatory lengthening it becomes *ātā and then the intervocalic consonant t >d. In Amg. appa is very much regular, Ki, in his sutra mahārāştri-misrārdha-māgadhi (5.95) shows that the characteristic features of Maharaştri are mixed with that of Ardhamāgadhi. So appă is not an irregular feature in Amg. In Bhag. the word ātmā has been changed into many forms, such as, appă (90,239) āda (101), paņihidappa (172), attasuddhim (206), appayam (209), ādā (244), adaparapaoga karane (612) etc. 5. Influence of Māgadhi in Sauraseni.
At least in three cases, the grammarians have no difference of opinion to lay out the characteristic features of Magahdí. For example r>1, $,s>s', and the nominative singular of masculine a-stem becomes e -ending. Besides these characteristics, grammarians have also formulated some other sutras for Magadhí. In this context, the aforesaid specialities can only be discussed. In Bhag. some Māgadhí words have been used. For example, cattālam (65), lukkho (94), pattalukkhenam (209,247), kalunam, kaluniyam (440), imgāla (1038) etc. These Māgadhi words found in Saur. But Hc. in his Sutra haridrădau lah (1.254) has also mentioned some words in Mah where r becomes /
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