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[túbhya hinvāná- u -avasiṣṭa g apá- u -adhukṣan ... náraḥ ]<br />
Unfortunately, nothing is left of this pronunciation, except the invaluable<br />
notes by Pāṇin), some cases from SV, AŚS, ŚSS, KauśS, MU brought to light<br />
by Oldenberg, Prolegomena, p. 457 sq., 453, and the more important<br />
testimony of MS, KpS and of PS which has (almost) gone unnoticed thus far:<br />
-as vowel- > -ay vowel-. KpS occasionally still changes -e > -ay , -o > -av, -<br />
ai > -āy before vowel: varuṇadhā-y-iti (Ms. eti) KpS 6.8; ruca-y-eṣā 7.5; tay-enam<br />
7.8; vibhāvasa-v-iti 30.3. 242 PS also has a few cases like this, e.g., tay-eka<br />
PSOr 6.15.8.<br />
It is remarkable that the Kapiṣṭhalas and, perhaps, the Paippalādins do not<br />
agree upon the rules of Pāṇinean grammar, even after millenia of their<br />
influence. Furthermore, there is another area of vowel Sandhi in which both<br />
the Maitr.and Kap. differ from Pāṇini:<br />
MS: unacc. -e/as + acc. vowel > ā acc.v. 243<br />
The Kap. agree, though only a few forms are found sporadically:<br />
KpS: (unnacc.) -e/as + (acc.)vowel > ā (acc.) v. 244<br />
Unless the occurrence of this rule in KpS is due to Maitr. influence on KpS<br />
in medieval Gujarat, it must go back to the Vedic period, when both schools<br />
lived in close proximity, in S. Kurukṣetra viz. S. Panjab. A decision is<br />
difficult to reach at this point, as KpS has been edited on the basis of a single<br />
manuscript of unknown provenience. A thorough search in Gujarat would<br />
perhaps turn up more MSS and help to solve the problem. In either case,this<br />
school peculiarity may provide a hint that Pāṇini's general Abhinihita rule (-e<br />
, -o) originated in the Northern part of Kurukṣetra (KS,AB) and not in the<br />
Southern part (MS, MU). This would be very important for a study of the<br />
history of Vedic texts; clearly, more research is needed.<br />
To sum up: The older Sandhi forms still taught by Pāṇini were (occasionally)<br />
preserved by some of the rarer texts, notably those of which a Prātiśākhya<br />
has not been composed (or has not been transmitted during the post-Vedic<br />
period). The "classical" Abhinihita Sandhi taught by Pāṇini at 6.1.109 sqq.<br />
and actually used in his grammar has been introduced into almost all of the<br />
242 See Raghu Vira, ed. intr., repr. p. VI.<br />
243 Schroeder, ed. MS I, p. xxviii; cf.also Lubotsky, IIJ 25.<br />
244 Schroeder, ed. MS I, p. xxxix; Raghu Vira, ed. repr. p. VI.<br />
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