Could someone confirm the wider Prakrit evidence?
Tim commented with reference to the Pali commentarial explanation of
sutta as suvutta:
But this is not really much to support sutta < sūkta,
since the regular Pāli form parallel to sūkta includes the glide -v-,
as Skt ukta ~ Pāli vutta and
similarly in other MIA languages, which all seem to preserve the initial v- of the verbal root *vac-
(Pischel §337), despite the vowel change a > u before a labial (§104).
But unless I am misreading something here, Pischel (§337) notes that Jaina Śaurasenī, Śaurasenī and Māgadhī all have utta < ukta
And Turner’s A comparative dictionary of the Indo-Aryan languages
includes Prakrit
sutta under sūkta:
13545 sūktá ʻ well recited ʼ RV., ʻ eloquent ʼ MatsyaP. [su --
2, uktá -- ]
Pk. sutta -- ʻ handsomely said ʼ; OG. sūta ʻ speaking properly ʼ.
Rupert
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Rupert Gethin
Professor of Buddhist Studies
University of Bristol
Department of Religion and Theology
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Bristol BS8 1TB, UK
Email: Rupert.Gethin@bristol.ac.uk
