The Purana Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age c6.34

c6.34

Similarly no doubt are to be explained the Bḍ reading of p. 62, l. 40 and the Vā readings in note 31 thereto. The reading in literary Pkt would have been something like *vassāna uccate Kali* or rather *vassāna-r-uccate Kali*. Turned into Skt, *varṣāṇām ucyate Kaliḥ* was good and sufficient, yet notwithstanding, the desire for an expedient to prevent the hiatus persisted in the Sanskritization, for *m*Vā has preserved the euphonic *r*, and *bdfg*Vā inserted *tu* instead. These were no doubt the original forms of the Sanskritizations, but it was perceived that no such expedient was wanted, hence most copies of the Vā dropped it. The reverse is not credible.