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Pāli:
ekādasa, bārasa, -teḷasa, paṇṇārasa/pañcadasa
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ekārasa, pañcadasa/pannarasa (Gramm.)
catuddasa ,cuddasa, soḷasa
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Inscr. W: bāra(saka) E.:paṃḍarasa
Niya: badaśa, trodaśa/e, pañcadaśa
Gāndh.: tedasa
todaśa,trodaśe
ṣoḍaśa,sattārasa,
aṭṭhārasa AMg. cau/coddasa
Other Pkts.
ekkārasa, barasa AMg. duvālasa
ikkārasa , terasa --------
paṇṇarasa, paṇṇaraha
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NIA:
>rah(a) etc.
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In some of the words from 11-19, the realisation as r/ḷ/l may have been
influenced by the immediate surroundings (trayodaśa: r..d ṣoḍaśa : ṣ..ḍ. etc.).
The general distribution of -ḷ-, however, is more important in this context. 276
The evidence seems to indicate an early diffusion of the feature in Pāli, the
Aśokan inscriptions (Delhi, Radhia, Mathia), Gāndhārī/Niya Pkt., and a later
spread to all Prākṛts. In the numerals, under the special conditions
mentioned, intervocalic -ḷ- is found in Pāli and, perhaps (with -l-), in
Ardhamāgadhī. Note, however, the almost universal change to -r- (continued
in NIA), which seems to indicate a pronunciation [ṛ/ḷ]. It is surprising that
Māgadhī is missing in the list. On the whole, the originally Western -ḷ- of
Vedic, which by the late Br. period had reached the East and South, had
spread to all MIA dialects by the time they were first recorded.
§9.2 Nom.pl. -āḥ/āsaḥ; te devāḥ
276 See O.v. Hinüber, Überblick, p.103 § 198; cf. Lüders, Phil. Ind., p.546-651, Wack., Ai.
Gr., Nachtr. I §222.
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