Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c8.s1.t2.13

c8.s1.t2.13

The main features of this dialect—the predominance of *l*, the nominative masculine in *-e*, the loss of *ñ* and *ṇ*, and the sibilant *s*⁶—accord on the whole with the later literary Prakrit known as Ardha-Māgadhī, whence it has been called by Lüders and others⁷ “Old Ardha-Māgadhī.”