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. https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/soas_query.py?page=780 Rupert -- Rupert Gethin Professor of Buddhist Studies University of Bristol Department of Religion and Theology 3 Woodland Road Bristol BS8 1TB, UK Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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