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Ṛgveda, nor to its Brāhmaṇa texts (where it is found in AB, AĀ, and also in<br />
KB). It also occurs in a number of texts where this usually is not realised at<br />
all.<br />
First of all, in the Kaṭha school, in KS, KaṭhB, KaṭhĀ. The manuscripts of<br />
these texts (especially the Śāradā MSS) apply a special symbol, a small<br />
diacritic triangular mark, which is attached to the akṣara for -ḍ-. The editor,<br />
L.v.Schroeder, has neglected this and has thereby misrepresented the<br />
phonetic status of this school to this very day. 169<br />
The Kapiṣṭhala sub-school of the Kaṭhas has three cases of ḷ-/ḷh- in its single<br />
continous MS; see ed. Raghu Vira, introd., repr. p. VII, Oertel, SB<br />
München,1934, p.17: samūḷham 2.4, mṛḷayanta 3.8, dūḷabho 5.2 (in Caland's<br />
MS, Utrecht Univ. Libr.?).<br />
Paippalāda school: both the Kashmiri PS (with a diacritic) and the Oriya PS<br />
with a special letter used for intervocalic ḷ- (now found in Maraṭhī, Oriya etc.)<br />
exhibit the retroflex ḷ- instead of the usually printed -ḍ-.<br />
The Jaiminīya school: JS, JB, JUB, sporadically also JGS, JŚS equally show<br />
the retroflex ḷ- instead of -ḍ-. 170<br />
The Kāṇva school: VSK, ŚBK. Here the evidence is not so clear, as the MSS<br />
often writes this sound as normal dental -l-; cf. however, Caland on the<br />
occurrence of ḷ- even in MSS of BĀU, (ed. ŚBK, p.467). 171<br />
The development from retroflex ḷ- to dental -l- is not unknown, cf. Lüder's<br />
treatment of this sound change, Phil. Ind., p. 546 sqq., (and cf. Balkan Gipsy<br />
phrāl ḷ- first occurred in the Panjab (KS, AB 1-5) and subsequently spread<br />
eastwards into the Central area (only KB!), perhaps also to the Central<br />
*Śāṭyāyana Br. of SV which developed into the Southern JB; the new sound<br />
also made the usual "Kāṇva jump" to Kosala. Note that the Central Taitt.,<br />
169 Also misrepresented by Scheftelowitz, ed. RVKh, p.47; cf. however, WZKS 23, p. 16;<br />
and author, Das Kaṭha Āraṇyaka, diss. Erlangen 1972, partial print Erlangen/Kathmandu<br />
1974.<br />
170 See Burnell, Jaim. Arṣ. Br. p. IX; Caland, JS 33, cf. W. Rau, MSS 42, p.187 sqq.<br />
171 See also, Renou, JA 1948, p. 34, Lüders, Phil. Ind. p. 550 sq.<br />
172 See further, O.v. Hinüber, Überblick, p. §198 sqq.<br />
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