A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v1.c5.241

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वृत is another root which has widespread ramifications. In Prakrit the derivatives of this root generally appear to have exhibited the *u* sound, as *pautti*, *viudam*, *samvudam*, *ṇivvudam*, *vuttanto*, for *pravṛitti*, *vṛita*, *samvṛita*, *nirvṛita*, *vṛittânta* (Var. i. 29); but in the Jain Pr. of the Bhâgavatî the Sanskrit forms *vṛitta*, *pravṛitta*, are found, and the ordinary form *vart* goes into vaṭṭ, as vaṭṭai for vartate. So in Saptaś., with a further loss of v, we find ṇiattai, ṇiattanta, and once nivvutta (śl. 156). In the modern languages there are, first, a number of words of the form बट or वट, derived from various parts of the root. Thus: