Wilson Philological Lectures on Sanskrit and the Derived Languages c8.81.3

c8.81.3

cannot have been developed out of the इ or अ of the Pâli इद्धि, अच्छ, अण, उज्जु, &c., or the अइ and अउ of such words as दइच्च, भइरव, पडर, कउसल, &c., from the ए and ओ of the corresponding Pâli words, or the ण्ण for Sanskrit ज्ञ from the Pâli ञ्ञ, though this latter exists in some of the Prâkrit dialects, or the रिस for श or ष in such words as आअरिस, सुदरिसण, बरिस, and परामरिस from the स्स or स of the Pâli आदास, सुदस्सन, वस्स, and परामास. The Prâkrit sounds must in these cases be traced directly to the corresponding Sanskrit sounds. It therefore appears that the Prâkrits had also an independent development, which may be accounted for on the supposition that they sprang not from the Pâli but a sister dialect or dialects; or that, though originally they were the same as the Pâli, their subsequent development was influenced by the parent language, and thus other sounds and forms not existing in the earlier dialect came in fresh from Sanskrit. But the first supposition is discountenanced by the fact that the resemblance between the Pâli and the Prâkrits extends even to isolated cases; and the second is supported by the circumstance that in one important particular the Prâkrits resemble the Sanskrit in the last stage of its development, while the Pâli differs in that particular from both and agrees with an earlier form of the parent language. We have seen that in later Sanskrit verbal forms especially of the past tenses were rarely used, and participles were employed instead;