[tied] Re: Prakrit cha 'six'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel Baum" <daniel@...> wrote:

> Well, it's certainly not difficult to prove that the Rigveda is
> not in the same dialect as classical Sanskrit, or indeed, the
> later Vedic texts. However, there is no variant form of the number
> six beginning with a /k/ in the Rigveda, at least as far as I am
> aware.

No, if there really was an Old Indo-Aryan *kSaS-, it didn't
find its way into the prakrits by way of the Vedic dialect.
It would be just another of those items from a lost dialect,
or dialects of Old Indo-Aryan that survived in the prakrits,
but bypassed both Sanskrit and Vedic.

David