The Purana Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age c6.73

c6.73

The use of expletives was however carried beyond necessary requirements, and they are often inserted merely to prevent two vowels from coming together, as *tv* in the second of the above-cited lines, and *hy* in the fifth and seventh lines. Skt sandhi did not require this device, but it is intelligible in Pkt. This superfluity is found in the Bh also, where it has not condensed the older ślokas, as in *śūdra-prāyās tv adhārmikāḥ* (p. 25, l. 3).