Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c8.s3.t8.10
Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c8.s3.t8.10
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A notable peculiarity of epigraphic syntax is the mixing of active and passive constructions, as in *prapittrācāryeṇa . . . kṛtavān* in the Paraśurāmeśvara temple inscription (EI 26, 126–7, ll. 1–2) and *sa ca sa ca . . . tālī dātavyā* in Sīyadoṇī (EI 1, 174, l. 9). Like many of the features enumerated in this section, this peculiarity has parallels in inscriptional Prakrit, for instance, in MI §150, *kuṭubiniye . . . patiṭhāpeti*, and in some of the Nāgārjunakoṇḍa inscriptions, for example, B 5 *mahādevi rudradharabhaṭarikā imaṃ selakhaṃbaṃ . . . patiṭhapitaṃ* (SI I.231, l. 4).