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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
The change of p, initial and intervocalic, to h in Kanarese was noticed by Western scholars early. Caldwell says “the initial p of nearly all the words-whether they are pure Dravidian or Sanskrit derivatives-changes to h”. A more careful study of this change of p to h was made by Kittel in his Grammar. He points out that initial p was changed to h in Kēśirāja's time (1260) optionally. But he has not given evidence from the inscriptions to show when p changed to h.
page 673 note 1 CDG., pp. 156 and 157.
[The following abbreviations are used in this article:-
CDG. = B. Caldwell: Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Languages.
EC. = Epigraphia Carnatica.
El. = Epigraphia Indica.
KBB. = Karnāṭaka Bhāṣā Bhūṣaṇa.
KG. = F. Kittel: Grammar of the Kanarese Language.
KSS. = Karṇāṭaka Šabdānušāsana.
KVV. = Karṇāṭaka Kavyavalökana.
MK. = Middle or Mediaeval Kannada.
NK. = New (Modern) Kannada.
OK. = Old Kannada.
S. = Sütra.]
page 673 note 2 KG., Sections 64, 184, 223, 224, 370.
