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On the whole, the picture is as follows:
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Forms in: -ai -(āy)āḥ
v.3: TS: 15 MS,KS (KS Aśv.-ai 1x) 83
lv.4: AB: partly (see above) AB (partly)
KB -ai
TB,TA -ai
VādhB -ai 84
BŚS -ai 85
BhŚS -ai 86
ĀpŚS -ai 87
JB -ai
JŚS -ai 88
ŚBM,VSM: ŚBK,VSK -āḥ 89
PB (once 1.5.3 not < KpS) PB
ChU (mixed) 90
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By way of exception, the case of the Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā must be mentioned
separately. Here the distribution is as follows: VSM -ai 20x VSK -āḥ in all
cases. The Kāṇvas align themselves here, for the first time, with the more
Western dialects represented by MS, KS, and PB. A note of caution must be
voiced, however. The evidence for VS seems to point to a Mantra time usage
of -ai forms in VSM. However, Caland 91 has indicated that VS may have
received its final redaction no earlier than the time of ŚB; at least a part of VS
was actually extracted from ŚB. 92
83 In ādityai pājasvam, see Ved. Var. III §143; MS has -āḥ in the same Mantra; note that
Bhave, Die Yajus des Aśvamedha, holds that KSa stems from TS.
84 For example, 4 §28b dīkṣāyai, etc.
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For example: etasyai 2.11; see Caland, Über BŚS, p. 45: etasyai, chāgāyai etc.; abl.:
uttarāyai śroneḥ, etc.
86
See Kashikar, ed. BhŚS, p. LX.
87
See Garbe, ed. ĀpŚS III, p. VI, cf. Keith, tr. TS p. CXLVI.
88
See Gaastra, ed. JŚS, p. 26.
89
Caland, ed. ŚBK, introd. p.37: dhenvoḥ ŚBK, dhenvai ŚBM; cf. ann. 91
90
For example, 4.17.8 asyāḥ... vidyāyā, 3.1.2 tasyai; for the Up., see Fürst, KZ 47, 14 sqq.
91
Caland, AO 10, 132 sq., see ann. 48.
92
On a few divergent Kāṇva forms in -ai see Edgerton, Ved.Var.III, §137 sqq.
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