The Purana Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age c7.13

c7.13

iii. Two other letters which might be confused in Kharoṣṭhī but not in any other script are k and bh, and there are some variations which seem to have so originated. The Vā generally, and the Mt sometimes, have Tuṅga instead of Śuṅga², a misreading the cause of which is not clear³, but the name Śuṅgabhṛtya is generally corrupted to Tuṅgakṛtya in the Vā, while eVā alone among the Vā MSS has preserved it nearly right as Śuṅgavṛtya⁴. Here it seems certain that bh was misread as k in a Kharoṣṭhī MS. The converse appears to be the cause of the faulty Mt reading in p. 41, line 22, where saumyo bhaviṣyati, with no mention of the length of the reign, seems to be a misreading of the Vā and Bd reading so 'py eka-viṃśatim, for, while saumyo might be a later mistake and emendation for sopye, bhaviṣyati could be a misreading of ka-viṃśati in Kharoṣṭhī only. The two forms would be bhavissati and ka-visati in Pali and probably also in literary Pkt, and these two would be almost identical in Kharoṣṭhī which generally wrote long and short vowels alike and doubled letters as single.