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Typical is a comparison of the forms in PB and the parallel SV text, JB, as<br />
(to some extent) made by Caland: JB duhe ( 1Sg., 3Sg.) 1.225, 236, 256, 340;<br />
ŚBM 1.5.2.20, etc. :: PB dugdhe 4.3.9, 13.9.17, 13.11.18; 20.1.5, 21.2.5-6,<br />
21.3.2, 24.1.6; ṢB 1.2; ŚBK 1.2.1.12 etc.; (TB 1.7.3.7 seems to be an exeption<br />
in this school); JB duhre 1.256, 2.3, 2.410, 3.157 :: duhate ŚBK 1.2.4.11, etc.;<br />
duhanti PB 18.5.12 (but also ŚBM,AB,AA,TB). 219 Another later intrusion is<br />
the wrong form of the personal pronoun, nom. dual, of the first and second<br />
person: 220 nom. yuvám, acc. yuvm 221 RV+, but: nom. yuvām PB 21.1.1<br />
(next to āvam!), otherwise apparently not found. Comparable, though more<br />
frequent, than nom. yuvām is the case of nom. āvám, acc. āvm, since RV,<br />
but: nom. āvām; usually found in AB (4.8, etc.), it is one of the curious<br />
modernisms in an otherwise old text; 222 also at ŚBM 4.1.5.16 (āvám ŚBK),<br />
14.1.1.23, BĀUK 3.2.14 (āvám BAUM = ŚB 14.6.2.14); ChU 8.8.1.<br />
Similar is the case of the occurrence in PB of Classical asthīni : Vedic<br />
asthāni JB. 223 PB also has the later form tanūm (12.2.3) for tanvam. 224 There<br />
219 See Caland, PB transl., p.XX.<br />
220 Pers. pronoun avam etc., see Caland, introd. PB, p. XIX sq. Over en uit het JB p. 17; see<br />
Wack. Debr., Ai.Gr. III.2, p.463 §229c, Aufrecht, AB p. 428.<br />
221 See Wack. Debr., Ai.Gr. II, 2 p.463 §229c; cf. Keith, transl. RV Br., p. 74; Caland, tr. PB<br />
p. XX; cf. the same confusion in some MSS of KaṭhŚiU, see WZKS 23, p.18, ann. 18.<br />
Contrast the correct use of nom. avam, acc. avām in JB, see ed. Cal. §186.<br />
222 Cf. above, opt. in -īta, ann. 15, 22; some gen.fem. in -ai in the older books, AB 1-5; this<br />
makes redactional tampering in the final redaction of AB even more likely, see ann. 89.<br />
223 Cf. Caland, PB transl., p. XIX sq., Over en uit JB, p.16. Cf. also: PB dakṣiṇāyām /<br />
dakṣiṇasyām: °āyām: JB, ŚBM, °asyām : PB obl. cases of śiras- in PB class. śirasā: JB Ved.<br />
śīrṣṇā; PB śirasam, JB śīrṣāṇam; etc. Survivals of Vedic forms, on the other hand, are<br />
found even in the early Sūtras: the old loc. sg. in -an which is still found in VādhB, and very<br />
frequently in BŚS, see Caland Über... BŚS p. 43; cf. also the use of tya- (syaḥ syā , tyad),<br />
Caland, Over... JB, p.17; tya: MS, JB, ŚBK, TS, ŚB 14.4.1.26 (Śāṇḍ.!) --- no tya- (but ayam<br />
janaḥ, mayi, etc.) (KS), PB, ŚBM. - - It is surprising that ŚBK shares many of the traits of<br />
PB which are later; see Caland, Over en uit het JB: p.15 sqq : abl. -an stems: -ani JB, -an<br />
PB, ŚBK; n.pl. ī stems: -īḥ JB, -yaḥ PB,ŚBK; - nom.pl.fem. -ayaḥ JB,TS, -yaḥ PB; acc.<br />
tanvam JB 3.82,178, -ūm PB; nom. tanvaḥ JB 3.178; -- obl.forms of śiras: śīrṣṇā,<br />
śīrṣāṇam JB,ŚBM, but śīrasā, śirasam PB,ŚBK, etc.; -- asthāni JB, asthīni PB (Class.) -<br />
Nom. yuvam JB, ŚBK, Nom. yuvām PB 21.1.1. This points to late final redaction of this<br />
text, perhaps only under the Kāṇva dynasty of E. India, in the first mill. B.C.? Cf. that the<br />
Maitr., too, seem to have received their name from/because of the patronage of the local<br />
Maitraka dynasty of Gujarat. Their older name was Kalāpaka.- PB, likewise, may have<br />
received its final redaction in the East, see below, ann.250,290,334. In that case, the similar<br />
developmennts in the Kāṇva and Kauth., texts would not surprise. Note that the East is a<br />
centre for late Vedic redaction of texts, probably there were two areas:<br />
Kosala: Videha:<br />
ŚBK ŚBM<br />
PB *Bhāll.SV<br />
RV Śāk.? or RV Śāk., AB 6-8, AA<br />
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