254 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. {N.S., XVIII, 
In ATaatas RARE of AWAUA we have (p. 219)— 
“fam (un) faarea aia aefa-aa-aaa 
afa sae yam fears” 
But in the TATA of AWW we have (p. 155)— 
“qeafa, cacy fewa ua | 
yaa aufa at(s)4 atTete fata | 
ata RAAT ale atetaa AF | 
gama afaa ait, wea GET | 
at tata aa feaa fata | 
qa ated aif sat yam i” 
This fact attracted also the notice of Mr. Nanigopa, 
Bandopadhyaya, the cditor of this collection. But he believed 
them to be the specimen of old Bengali, with admixtures of 
foreign tongues, In the preface of the book he says :— 
“geet AY usa ata art F agree Sar, & faut 
HAST ATE | TSISL IGT AMMA Ala, TABTA STA, WILITS 
St MARTE MTETRE Ha; Aa Da Ta UE BTS | FE TACT 
fata aus nS; fate fearfaata at aeTaay aU” | 
I wonder why he leaves out of account the last book, viz. 
ararraaraaset. It has greater resemblance to faerfaery and 
aerica than tragfcs has. Asa matter of fact faerfaary, 4¥T- 
vita and wyaaeawaze are written in one and the same 
language which is different from that of the trate - 
The language of traafes is distinctly Bengali and Mr. 
Nanigopal Banerji rightly points out some of the peculiarities 
that distinguish the language of crafca from that of the 
remaining works. In faeprfrerg and aera he finds that & is 
added to a word to make it a Genetive case, a€ to make it an 
Ablative case, and fe to make it a Locative case. His atten- 
tion was also drawn to the words ¥a@, each, ate and at - 
But curiously enough, all these peculiarities in case-endings 
and words, which appear to the learned editor as old forms of 
Bengali, are really forms of Maithili. These peculiarities are 
met with in the current specch of Maithils. They even n0W 
use the words, mentioned above, in their ordinary conversation 
as well as in literature. 
Apart from these, it would appear quite clear to even a 


