Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c8.s3.t8.4

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The formation of causative verbs and their derivatives with the *-p-* affix where not called for by Pāṇinian rules is particularly characteristic of epigraphic Sanskrit. This occurs in both early Sanskrit inscriptions, as in *bandhāpitaś* in the Gundā stone ins. (A.D. 181; SI I.181–2, l. 5), and later, for example, *karṣāpayato* (= *karṣayato*) in the Dhulev plate (EI 30, 4, l.3). The late (A.D. 1264) Verāval inscription (SI II.402–8), which presents a good example of the second class of “functional” epigraphic Sanskrit described earlier, contains numerous forms of this type, including several derivatives of √()*vṛt* (*varttāpanārthaṃ*, *varttāpanīyaṃ*, *varttāpayatāṃ*, ll. 21, 34, 35), and *lopāpayati* (l. 42).