Wilson Philological Lectures on Sanskrit and the Derived Languages c8.16

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was necessary. Hemachandra also in his sūtra वादी following another, णो णः, says that the initial न is sometimes changed to ण, sometimes not. As to the third, the termination ḟ may constitute a peculiarity of the language, but it is by no means an index to its higher antiquity, since it occurs in the pronominal locative of the principal Prākṛit. There are several peculiarities in the Jaina books, and a good many of them are noticed by our Grammarian, but they do not show an earlier stage of development.