Though u ordinarily represents IE. Very rarely a is a Prakritic representative o f r, as in vi-kata- 4 monstrous, beside vi-krta- deformed. This sound represents both a simple long vow el5 and a contraction; e. In very rare instances the nasal is retained in the RV.: Y dhvan- ; there AME CP36T six or eight more instances in the later Samhitas6. Here the reappearance o f the nasal in a AME CP36T radical syllable is an innovation due to[…]
