A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v1.c7.32

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Hoefer, de dialecto Prakritâ, p. 90, § 73b, gives a list of words in which the Sanskrit form of the nexus is retained in Prakrit, but this list has no value, as it rests upon incorrect readings. The principal instance is समिक्त्सु in Vikramorvaśi (110, 2, Calcutta edition), which Lassen concludes to have arisen “ob negligentiam editorum,” or, perhaps, rather from the proclivity of the scribe towards Sanskrit forms, a fertile source of bad readings in the plays. We should undoubtedly read सभिक्क°. Hoefer's work does not appear to be one of much value.