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Southern Jaiminīya (originally a Central *Śāṭyayana) text, and JUB retained
or reintroduced the pronunciation Cīya in a cluster which had long since been
Cya. 211
On the other hand, the pronunciation Cya, which is, according to the early
testimony of KS (tvak > carman, see above), to be expected in Western texts,
indeed surfaces in the older part of AB 212 and the Western Sāmavedic texts:
ṢB, DŚS, LŚS (perhaps already of Gujarat location); in ŚBK, which is almost
always aligned with the Western schools, and finally in GB 1.4.7-8 which has
been taken over from ŚB 12.1.21 sqq. (according to Caland, originally a
Kāṇva text).
The case of the variants śunāsīryà- / śunāsīr¡ya- also supports this analysis:
śunāsīryà- MS 4.3.3; MŚS 1.7.2.7, 1.7.8.1,14,18, 5.1.4.26, 5.2.7.8; MGS
1.4.16; VārŚS 1.7.5.6,...; KāṭhŚS-Saṃk.28:23, 29.11, 29.13; ed. Lah. 1928:45;
PB 17.13.15,17; 25.4.1; LŚS 8.8.47; NidānaS 3.3:12, 7.3:30;
BŚS 28.12:15-16; BhŚS 8.23.1, 8.24.6; JB 2.234; KB 5.8; ŚŚS 3.18.1,3,17,20;
ŚBM 2.6.3.6, 2.6.3.5, 2.6.3.2,11,13, 2.6.4.9, 5.2.4.4;
GB 2.1.26 < KB 5.8(5.10 ed. Sarma)
Pāṇ. 4.2.32
śunāsīrīya-
TB 1.4.10.2, 1.4.3.9; BŚS 15.12:1, 17.58:1, 17.60:16, 24.10:3,4,...,°paruḥ
21.6:9,11, 25.1:2,5,14; ĀpŚS 8.20.1,5, 8.21.6, 18.9.5, 20.15.3, 22.9.1,...; HŚS
6.8.8, 14.3.18, 17.3.34, 17.4.1,...; KB 6.15, ŚSS 14.9.1,2,7, 15.12.10;
VSK 26.4.4; ŚBK 1.6.3.2,5,8,9, 1.6.4.9, 7.1.2.4;
VSM 24.19; ŚBM 11.5.2.6,9; KŚS 5.11.1,16, 18, 15.1.16, 17; °sthāna 22.7.10;
KāṭhŚS-Saṃk. °28.23; ĀŚS 2.20.1, 9.2.22, 12.4.9;
Pāṇ. 4.2.32
The distribution in this case is quite similar. The Central and Eastern
Central schools have Cīya, but not, in this case and differently from
upavasathya, the Southern Jaiminīyas: TB, Taitt. Sūtras, KB and its Sūtra
ĀŚS, and, somewhat surprisingly, both Mādhy. and Kāṇva Vājasaneyin, and
their Sūtra KŚS; the Kāṇvas exeptionally do not align themselves here with
the Western schools (MS,KS). Note that the only occurrence of the form in
ŚB 11 (and the corresponding part of VS) are from a book that is suspected
211
Śāṇḍilya's ŚB perhaps is a Central text, if we take into account the Jaina testimony of a
Saṇḍilla country in UP, see §4.1.
212
But cf. the different derivation of aupavasathya- AB 7.32.
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