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een derived from the precative (or the injunctive; see O.v.Hinüber,<br />
Überblick, p.178 §433).<br />
It is very illustrative to note here that the extreme North-West, i.,e Pāṇini's<br />
language has n o t accepted the Kuru-Pañcāla innovation. 299<br />
Pāṇ. still teaches -yāsma in dāyāsma, etc., and therefore stands on the level of<br />
the RV. This is another indication of the extreme conservatism of the<br />
Northern <strong>edu</strong>cated speech, cf. KB on Northern speech, quoted above.<br />
§9.8 The Infinitive in -tavái<br />
In classical Skt. only one infinitive survived, the one in -tum; this agrees<br />
with the major infinitive form of the Prākṛts: Pāli -tum, Śaur.-dum, J.-Māh. -<br />
um 300 ; it is, however, rarely found in A.Mg. 301<br />
In the Veda (and to some extent in Middle Indian) there still was a great<br />
variety of inf. endings (-e,-dhyai,-as, -am,-toḥ, -tave, tavai, etc.), of which the<br />
one in -tos has been studied above, (cf. § 5.4). The dative variety -tavái,<br />
(which developed from the earlier -tave, note the accent) 302 is found in a<br />
number of texts, 303 quoted here according to Renou, Mon.Skt. and Delbrück,<br />
Syntax; (the numbers followed by ? indicate my uncertainty as to the<br />
inclusion intended by Renou of all cases found in the texts).<br />
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RV 25 ŚS 3?<br />
MSp 14 TSp 2?<br />
ŚBK more ŚBM 37<br />
KSp 8 frequent<br />
than M 304 ŚBMo 26 305 (16)<br />
299<br />
See already K.Hoffmann, p.470: "indication for dialect differences in the Brahmanical<br />
caste language.<br />
300<br />
See O.V. Hinüber, Überblick §497, p. 198.<br />
301<br />
Cf. also Renou, Mon.Skt. II §39 sqq., cf. Minard, Trois énigm. I § 119c.<br />
302<br />
From -tave-vái, see Thurneysen, Mél.Saussure, p. 233 sqq.<br />
303<br />
cf. already Brunnhofer, Beitr.z. Kunde d. idg. Sprachen, X, p.234-266; Delbrück, Ai.<br />
Syntax, p. 427 sqq., Oertel, Journal of Ved. Stud. I, p. 141 sqq.; Renou, Mon. Skt.2, esp. p.<br />
26 sqq.= §26 sqq.; Oertel, KZ 65, p.71 (īśvara- + °tavai).<br />
304<br />
See Caland, ed. ŚBK p.47, 74, 85, Oertel ZII 5, p. 111.<br />
305<br />
The numbers in brackets are those of Brunnhofer, whose facts Renou, p. 37, calls "ne<br />
sont rien moins que sûres".<br />
110
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