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Then by Sandhi forte consonants are changed into lenes as also 

 fortes or lenes of one class into lenes or fortes of another. 



flFt^l from Prakrita frffwri from. Sanscrit f^f^oTjiilCTf?*— >ilCTff%S — 

 4CWK, Wt— §!>% — 3of5&i%, ?\5\5— %\5— 3t\5— 3i>t— ^§%f%,^* 

 — 5^TCTl — 35T?1T, ^5t1% is Hindi, ^t»Tl— Z#t^1, ^qs1— ^55$C\51 — 



f^i?, <pr?"— f^ft?1 — ^s^T?r, f^t— c3>Tq?1— c^T&, <tft*r— *wt— 

 ^c^i — to, •tf'w— •ftrc^i— ^^ <n— <rT^— ^c*. 



In many of the above, Hindi forms may be detected, several of 

 which point to a greater intimacy with Prakrit than Bengali. The 

 Hindi form •5T^"I, meaning snb-acid in taste, has a close resemblance 

 to •sfT^' meaning to eat. The word appears to have been extended 

 to the later meaning snb-acid in taste, as to the Hindustani it is a 

 stimulant to eating. The word Fii? sft literally means that which 

 is to be eaten or licked. Its present meaning, however, is a sub-acid 

 acrid pie. In Bengali, words are easily contracted and harsh 

 sounds often eliminated, *f©fl is from the Prakrit *T 31^1 from the 

 Sanscrit 2^1"^, C%\ from ^sj and ^t^T^t from <n^f*ft. 



Words ending with a compound consonant and the vowel i, in 

 passing from Sanscrit to Prakrit and Bengali generally drop the 

 consonant ; as, sfl^ from 5ftf%, STT^ from srt?1^, ■*tft from •ftTTwf^, "^ft: 

 — S^tt— WS% ; thus ^t— Sjf$?1— *fV*1, 3U*T— ^T^t— ^P 3 **^— 



^t^iw?1%., w^— wfs— wfk, ^<r^t^:— f^-sr^T^— -^s-ar^t^ft, *?T^— 



In compliance with the general rule about the fortes and 

 lenes of one class changing into fortes or lenes of another, 

 the following changes may be observed ; \§Tf^«|1 — ^Tf5*i1 — wf^H. 

 The Hindi form C^t*Rl is evidently from the Prakrit C^FT^Tl, 

 Sanscrit cWTsfl. It is important to notice how the original 

 meaning has been lost. Again \5Tf%*[ — WTf^^T — TtTJ%*T are in- 

 stances of ^ substituted by ^. The Prakrit has only changed 

 the \5 into cT ; such change is still observed in Sanscrit grammar, 

 and several Sanscrit words up to the present day are spelt in 

 both ways i;^ WTf*T is also ^% and very often the ^r stands for ^, 

 as in TT^T «; and %T*TSj;. As an instance of ^=5T, we have the word 

 SCOT'S (Hindi) from the Prakrit <5\5t3, Sanscrit ^vSf'Jf. In this 

 we find that sf in Sanscrit is changed to ^3 in Prakrit. But 

 most peculiar is the change of *T into ■>!", and T> into \g. In tracing 



