TRACING VEDIC DIALECTS - People.fas.harvard.edu
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Post-Saṃhitā developments:<br />
loss of per. aor.<br />
athātaḥ (ŚB,BŚS,KB)<br />
sāyam > sāye etc.<br />
Eastern innovations:<br />
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spread of narr. perfect<br />
renewed use of subj.<br />
spread of hyperchar.<br />
subjunctive<br />
renewed use of inf.-tavai<br />
tanacmi >tanakmi<br />
old accent (with three tones) Vājasan. bhāṣika acc.<br />
Mahāvṛṣa & Kuru acc.: "uttarāh(a)i" with two tones only;<br />
also in PB;<br />
Chandas accent not<br />
allowed in Buddh. texts<br />
-500<br />
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500 PGW<br />
Aitareyins (Aśvala=<br />
hotṛ of Janaka; Śākala,<br />
Uddālaka in Videha<br />
Paṇini:<br />
archaic precative<br />
knows of Eastern grammarians<br />
and E. forms but excludes Central<br />
and E. Veda texts<br />
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Yugandhara,<br />
Salvi tribe immigration<br />
in the Kuru/ into the East:<br />
Matsya terr. Śākya, Licchavi,<br />
Malla, etc.<br />
Late intrusions: duhe > dugdhe,<br />
nom. yuvām, avām in ŚBK, VSK, PB<br />
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