Confusion in Prakrit between the Sanskrit Prepositions prati and pari

SANSKRIT prati is represented in Prakrit normally by pa1i (P 218)1 or occasionally by pai (P 220). pari generally remains unchanged, but in MagadhI and other Prakrits which come under this head (P 23-25) often becomes pali (P 256-257). In this paper I shall collect a number of cases from the published literature in which Sanskrit pari is represented by Prakrit pa4i and suggest a reason for the equivalence. Pischel knew several such cases but he emended, and evidently in his material there were so few cases that the matter escaped his otherwise meticulous attention. In ? 564 of his grammar he says: 'pa4iuttha (R 4, 50), wofUr nach C zu lesen sein wird pariuttha', and in ? 302: 'parisacati (H. 1. [Text falsch pacdi])'. Both these words I shall have occasion to treat later. Siegfried Goldschmidt in the index to his edition of the livanavaha, p. 168, says that pa1i (prati) is often found for pari, and in note 2 to that page expands this statement as follows

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