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texts mentioned are located in the area of the Kuru tribe and not in that of the<br />
Pañcālas or that of other, more Eastern tribes, like the Kosalas.<br />
§6.2 kś :: khy<br />
The distribution of the pronunciation [kś] for the etymologically correct and<br />
otherwise universally accepted [khy] is a Kuru peculiarity as well; 163 it is also<br />
an innovative one that represents a change from a cluster with palatal<br />
semivowel to one with palatal fricative. The change has affected only one<br />
group of texts: the Yajurvedic texts of the Kurus. Among the printed texts,<br />
only the Kaṭha and Maitrāyaṇīya schools participate. The Carakas, however,<br />
are said to have shared this trait as well. This lost Yajurveda śākhā is very<br />
close to the texts of the Kaṭha school, though it is representrative of a<br />
separate, and apparently older, stage of development of the Yajurveda.<br />
Unfortunately, the texts of this school have been lost, except for some<br />
quotations in various Vedic and post-Vedic texts. 164 The innovation has not<br />
spread beyond the area of these Yajurveda texts belonging to the Kuru tribe.<br />
Even the Pañcāla texts (TS, KB, etc.) do not participate. 165 It is also<br />
remarkable that the innovation is limited stratigraphically to just one type of<br />
text, in this case, the YV. The local RV, AV, and SV texts (AB, PS, PB) do not<br />
participate. However, a similar phenomenon was observed in the case of the<br />
attestation of the inf. -toḥ in the RV-Br., see above §5.4. There as well, the<br />
RV-Br. do not completely share the local developments of the Yajurvedins.<br />
AB participates to slightly more than half of the percentage of the Kaṭha<br />
school living in the same area, but KB has a minimal amount, ca. 10% of the<br />
cases when compared to the Taitt. school of the same area. This may be<br />
attributed to the later stage of the texts, when compared to the YV Saṃhitās,<br />
but note that a Western SV-Br., the late PB, still has 20%. As these<br />
developments run counter to the usual areal spread of a dialect phenomenon,<br />
it will be instructive to pay attention to this in the following cases. 166<br />
163<br />
KS, KpS, MS, Carakas, see StII 8/9 p. 209 and Schroeder, ed. MS I p. XLIII, Wack., Ai.<br />
Gr. I, 209.20 and additions p.116; for KpS, see J.Narten, Sprache 14, p.122: aor. akśat; cf.<br />
also Ved. Var.II § 190.<br />
164<br />
For the geographic position of the Carakas, see IIJ 26. For the school in general, see StII<br />
7 and 8/9.<br />
165<br />
Is it also not known to Pāṇini, cf. 3.2.7, 3.1.52, 8.1.57, 2.4.54<br />
166<br />
Cf. the summary in § 10.2.<br />
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