The Purana Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age c6.24

c6.24

Next may be cited a number of actual Pkt or half-Pkt words. All such forms cannot be deemed original, because the copyists, who were not always sufficiently literate, did write Pkt forms sometimes instead of Skt forms, but such deviations are trivial and obvious mistakes¹. It is different however when the Pkt forms violate grammar or sandhi, or suit the metre, and such are these—*uccādayitvā* (p. 53, note 52), *mahāyaśāḥ* as a nomin. plural² (p. 51, note 25) and *varṣā* (see p. 78). There are also instances of the Pkt genit. plural in *āna* (p. 35, note 41), and of its blending with *ante* into *ān-ante*, namely *kulānante* (p. 50, note 2) and *Andhrānante* (p. 59, notes 51, 54; p. 61, note 92). Other words appear to be Pkt survivals and not copyists' errors, such as *aṭṭitriṃśat* (p. 19, note 41), *athóchādya* (p. 34, note 3), *teṣūcchannesu* (p. 48, note 82), *samā* for *samās* before *tasmāt* in Vā genly (p. 34, note 18), and *Asakāḥ* in Vā and Bḍ (p. 24, note 15). In an old verse *Bh* has *papannān uhariṣyati* (p. 26, note 36), which seems more than a mere clerical error. Mistakes precisely like these are found in Buddhist Skt.