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eva Taitt., nu vāva ŚBK, (but nvāva JB, cf. also nvai BŚS), 215 and therefore
seems to be sprachwirklich, at least in the Taitt. and some bordering areas
and texts.
Notably, the same holds true in the cases of the Upaniṣadic (traditional)
pronunciation of satya, see S. Jamison, IIJ 29, 166 f.: satya [satiya satya]
agrees with the distribution given above; [satiya] is found in the Eastern texts,
BAU 5, AA, KU, while [satya] appears in BAU2 (a Śāṇḍilya section!), and in a
Western/Central Sāmaveda text, ChU. 216 The Jaiminīyas, an originally
Central (Śāṭyāyana), then Southern text, have more forms of this kind.
Caland, JS, p.33, adduces: duṣvapniyam, hastiya, kṛtviyo; śipriyandhasaḥ. 217
It seems that the later Eastern anaptyxis began to evolve at this time, and
not so much in the East but in the Central area, with some spread towards the
Eastern Central area (Kosala) and the South (Jaim. territory in N. Madhya
Pradesh, etc.). I suspect that the Central schools, like the Taitt., were under
pressure from two factors. The old Vedic pronunciation of the clusters Ciya,
Cuva was retained in Mantras and some "archaic" words (like súvar);
otherwise they succumbed to the pressure from "below," i.e., from the
spreading pronunciation of the (later on, Eastern) anaptyxis in cases like
upavasathīya, śunāsīrīya, and even uv eva.
§6.6 The intrusion of some late and post-Vedic forms
Still later is the intrusion of late, post-Vedic forms into some of the texts,
interestingly those also otherwise showing indications of a late redaction: as
is well known, Ved. duhe becomes in late Vedic and class. > dugdhe; Ved.
duhre > duhate, Ved. śaye > śete; however, the classical forms occur in such
texts as VSK and PB. 218 Renou has shown that VSK is a text with a
comparatively late redaction; it has otherwise strongly been influenced, as far
as the form of the Mantras is concerned, by the RV.
215 Caland, Über BŚS p. 50, see in detail, above, ann. 206.
216 This could be enlarged further by investigating cases of Cy: Ciy, like vamriyaḥ VSK:
vamryaḥ VSM 37.4, suvite VSK, KS, MS, TS, RV: svite VSM 5.5, aghniye VSK, TS: aghnye
MS, MŚS, PB (cf. Renou, JA 1948, p.39), etc. - See in detail, Ved. Var. II § 774-798.
217 For similar cases, see Wack. I p. 200 sqq., e.g. gāyatriya-; cf. patnayaḥ Taitt., JB:
patnyaḥ PB, etc. (Caland, Over JB p. 15 sqq.).
218 See Caland, Over en uit het JB, p.17 sq.; Renou, JA 1948, p.38.
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