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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. 



HFC*!! from Prakrita faJTOTI from Sanscrit f>W*T;4t*f3"— 4CWfa\— 



— ^TC3l— ^te, ^Tl% is Hindi, 3^1—^51, 3»3>C\F1— ^3>$re1 — 

 fW^, f*r<r— f^Tc^l— f^t? - , ftt-c^tc^1— c<pT&, ^rtsr — *<— 



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 *Qj1, meaning snb-acid in taste, has a close resemblance 

 to «4fT^ 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 T5H? ^ 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, ^fofl is from the Prakrit *ferfCffIl from the 

 Sanscrit SfaltfT, C^) from ^ and *T*R> from <n^«ft. 



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

 passing from Sanscrit to Prakrit and Bengali generally drop the 

 consonant ; as, tfYt from 9ft J%, $rft from srt?t§, <\t from •tfTwf^, "3Tf 



— n^tt— - ^st% ; thus srt"— ^fs?n— ^r<si, sw— ^r^t— ^**t?1%— 

 ^t^m<il^ w$— wf$— wfV, lj-sr^T^— y^^tt— ^s<r^t*ft, *rt^— 



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 ; \S»Tft«l1 — ^Tf^«l1 — wf^L 

 The Hindi form C^T*R1 is evidently from the Prakrit C^FT^Tl, 

 Sanscrit cWt^Tl. It is important to notice how the original 

 meaning has been lost. Again \5tf»to — T?fTfi f T"sr — Jftf^H" are in- 

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

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

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

 both ways t^i" ^fTf*r is also ^f, and very often the W stands for ?:, 

 as inTT*T«. and %T?W As an instance of ^==5T, we have the word 

 3^"te (Hindi) from the Prakrit vgvST'G, Sanscrit 5\$T$f. In this 

 we find that «>f in Sanscrit is changed to ^3 in Prakrit. But 

 most peculiar is the change of v\ into st, and i> into ^. In tracing 



