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distinguish the language of an occupation, a class, and certainly a caste, from
that of other groups.
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All of these developments must, again, be kept separate from the so-called
Eastern anaptyxis found in the Eastern Aśoka inscriptions (e.g., in Orissa) 208
and in Ardhamāgadhī. 209 This trait is, of course, attested in written form only
since the third cent. B.C. (Aśoka), and indirectly, in some Eastern forms, in
Pāli. The Western and Southern languages (Śaurasenī, Pāli, Mahārāṣṭrī)
tend to assimilate consonant clusters, e.g., apatya: Eastern Aśoka inscr.
(Khalsi, Dhauli in Orissa) apatiya, Western (Girnar) and Northern
(Shabazgarhi) apaca, Pāli (an)apacca (O.v. Hinüber, Überblick, p. 87).
Anaptyxis, therefore, cannot be claimed to explain the forms tuvaṃ, etc.,
found in Pāli and Śaurasenī, and Bhāsa (mentioned above, see Kuiper, IIJ
30). However, the development seems to be foreshadowed by a few
interesting occurrences of anaptyxis in Middle and Late Vedic.
A case like ŚBM upavasath¡ya :: ŚBK upavasathyá- is very instructive, as it
represents a major split in the treatment of this word in the various Vedic
śākhās. 210
upavasathyá-
AB 3.45; (cf. aupavasathya- AB 7.32);
ṢB 1.4.6, DŚS 2.1.22, 5.1.33; LŚS 2..1.20, 2.5.28; upavasathyaprabhṛti- DŚS
7.3.10; LŚS 3.3.12; GB 1.4.7, 1.4.8; ŚBK 4.6.1.26, 4.9.2.5; 3.2.7.4; and Kāṇva
text corresponding to ŚBM 9.2.1.1 (See Caland, ed. ŚBK p.469)
upavasath¡ya-
TB 1.5.9.7; BŚS 3.15:1, 5.1:7, 10.16:19, 10.19:3, 12.20:21, 15.11:11 16.24:3,
17.11:9, 18.41:7,23.2:22, 23.3:22, 24.20:4, 24.21:6, 26.2:18, VaikhŚS 18.9:9;
JUB 1.17.2.3, 1.17.2.5; ŚBM 9.2.1.1
The Non-Eastern ("Western": Śāṇḍilya) part of the Mādhy. version of ŚBw
(ŚB 6-10) and the Central TB, along with several Taitt. Sūtras and the
208
Note that the Orissan pronunciation of Vedic texts continues this until today, see MSS
44, p.283 sqq.
209
See: O.v. Hinüber, Überblick, § 75 p.60, §153 p.87; cf. also Sprache d.Buddh. in
Zentralasien: Gāndharī p.31.
210
Cf. Kuiper, IIJ 30, 2; Wackernagel, Ai Gr. I, 202; Ved. Var. II § 784 sqq..
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