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Sīgiri Graffiti and Sinhalese Phonology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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In his recently published Sīgiri graffiti (London, etc., Oxford University Press, 1956), Dr. S. Paranavitana, the Archaeological Commissioner of Ceylon, includes a long introductory section (Vol. I, pp. xxxii-clxxi) entitled ‘Grammar’, wherein he makes a large number of alterations to the previously held theories on the Sinhalese language which are principally to be found in the late Professor W. Geiger's Grammar of the Sinhalese language (Colombo, 1938).
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , February 1957 , pp. 481 - 486
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- Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1957
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page 483 note 1 More than one explanation can thus be provided for some changes; e.g. däduru for Skt. jarjjara, p. xlii, for Skt. darddura, p. xliii.
page 483 note 2 Turner, R.L., ‘Middle Indian -ḍ- and -ḍḍ-’, Beiträge zur Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte Indiens, 1926, 34–45.Google Scholar
page 485 note 1 Whether sirit and virit belong here is uncertain; it is not clear why they should be connected with cāritta, etc., rather than with caritta, etc.
page 485 note 2 With regard to verbal forms such as danimi ‘I know’ (§ 229), grammarians allow a first personal ending -ami, e.g. Vararuci 7.30.
page 486 note 1 paca, vaci, marica, kavaca, ruci, rucira.
page 486 note 2 cf. tuti (thuti), adara (ādhāra).