The Purana Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age c6.72

c6.72

It has been noticed above (pp. 78, 80) that the particle *tu* is used sometimes to compensate for the loss of the final syllable of *viṃśati* and *triṃśati*. When the full forms of these words vitiated the metre, they were reduced sometimes to *viṃśat* or *viṃśa*, and *triṃśat* or *triṃśa* and the lost syllable was replaced by an expletive *tu*. This expedient is very common and many instances of it will be found in the notes. Indeed it is hardly too much to say that the occurrence of *tu* throughout the account, if not required by euphony (see next para.), almost certainly indicates a lost syllable, and in many cases *tu* in the Mt and *e Vā* has been altered to *ca* in the Vā and Bd as an improvement. Other instances of compensatory expletives may be surmised in the notes, such as these—*Suṣeṇaś ca-Antarikṣāc ca* (p. 10, l. 13) is hardly explainable unless the second *ca* has replaced the lost syllable of the Pkt ablative; and *Dharmiṇaḥ sa* (p. 11, l. 15) no doubt stands instead of the Pkt genitive *Dharminassa*.