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of the Pali in which eta (root) esu (nom :) becomes esb rdjb, 

 (esha raja Sank.,) 4 this king,' and not as in the Prakrit 

 Magadhi est lad ; and esha purushah Sanskrit, becomes esb 

 purisb in the Pali, but not as in the Prakrit Magadhi esd 

 pujise, ' this man.' 



9. Ktantad USCHA : which is rendered by Dr. Cowell 

 into English as follows : — u is substituted when the affix su 

 follows a word ending with the affix Ma ; and also (as we 

 infer from the oha of the Suttas) we may optionally use the 

 i or e of the preceding Suttas, or even elide the affix ; as 

 hasidu or hasidi, haside hasida, for hasitah, ' smiling.' It is 

 only sufficient to state here that the Pali knows no such 

 thing, and that the Sanskrit hasitah is in the former simply 

 changed into hasito. 



10. Naso ho va dirghatwamcha. That is to say ha 

 is optionally substituted for nds, the affix of the genitive 

 singular, and at the same time the preceding vowel is length- 

 ened, as pulisdha or pulisdssa dhane iorpurushasga dhanam, 

 i the man's wealth.' The Pali form of this is purisassa 

 dhanam, wherein the Sanskrit inflexion sya is changed to 

 ssa, for the simple reason that the Pali dislikes the union of 

 two consonants of different classes. It is further remarkable 

 here that dhane of the Frakrit-Magadhi is dhanam (neuter) 

 both in the Sanskrit and Pali, in which, moreover, the 

 cerebral n is not used. 



11. ADIRGHAS Sambuddhau. It is to be inferred from 

 the examples given under this rule, that in the Prakrit- 

 Magadhi dialect, the vocative inflexion a both in the singular 

 and plural number is long. In the Pali, however, the termi- 

 nation of the vocative singular may be either long or short, 

 as purisa agachchha or pxirisa dgachchha, '0 ! man come.'* 



12. CHTTTHASYA Chishthah. In shewing the difference 

 of the Pali from the Prakrit-Magadhi, it is here sufficient 

 simply to exhibit the Pali forms of the given examples. 



45 See Glough's Bklavatsua, p. 19. 



