The Purana Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age c6.76

c6.76

The second class is commoner, and we find—*bhavisyāṣṭau* for *bhaviṣyāḥ aṣṭau* (p. 5, l. 10); *bhaviṣyōdayanas* for *bhaviṣyaḥ Udayanas* (p. 7, l. 23); *Yavanāṣṭau* for *Yavanāḥ aṣṭau* (p. 45, l. 4; p. 47, l. 10); and *bhāvyānyāḥ* for *bhāvyāḥ anyāḥ* (p. 47, l. 13). Here ordinary sandhi would have given a superfluous syllable, and the double sandhi rectifies the metre; but the significance of it is that it was easily avoidable in Skt, because the first two phrases might have been written *bhāvino ’ṣṭau* and *bhavitōdayanas*. The simplest explanation seems to be, that the conversion of the Pkt past tense into the Skt future was made perfunctorily, and overloaded the verse with a superfluous syllable which was adjusted by the double sandhi. The third phrase would have been *Yonā aṭṭha* in Pkt, and the Sanskritization of *Yonā* into *Yavanāḥ* produced the difficulty of the extra syllable. Attempts at improvement were made; see p. 45, note 16. There are many similar instances, such as *tatōtsādya* and *tatōtpātya* (p. 34, notes 3, 5); *atōddhṛtya* and *tatōdhṛtya* (p. 38, note 4).