Another example of this: The patronymic (in Sanskrit) Pārāśarya is found in Pāli EBTs in four variant forms - pārāsariya, pārāpariya, pārāsiriya & pārāsiviya. These variants would normally be inexplicable as far as regular phonetic laws and sound shifts are concerned.
Here (below) they are written in Kharoṣṭhī - they read pārāśariya, pārāpariya, pārāśiviya & pārāśiriya respectively - but they look nearly the same (and I am therefore nearly certain that the lexical variants arise from misreading the source text from a pre-Pali Kharoṣṭhī manuscript - before conversion into Pali in Brāhmī script).
