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Hoernle — Essays on the Gaurian Languages. 
[No. 2, 
If by a more thorough investigation of the Gaurian languages it can 
be shown, that they are entirely Sanskritie, this will, on account of the 
many undoubted resemblances between the Gaurian and Dravidian languages 
(cf. Dr. Caldwell’s Comparative Grammar, pp. 34 to 39), materially affect our 
view of the classification of the latter. However, this problem awaits yet a 
thorough scientific enquiry. And the following essays are offered as a slight 
contribution towards its solution. For the inflexional post-positions of the 
Gaurian languages are, above other points, considered to be evidences of the 
Dravidian* or Seythianf character of their grammatical structure. 
Essay II . — On the Post-Positions of the Genitive. 
The present essay will be devoted to the elucidation of the nature and 
origin of the post-positions of the genitive. They are the following : — 
In the High Hindi, ... qrr, ft, % ; 
Braj Bhasha, - - - - *RT, ft, f ; 
Alwar Dialect, 
Ganwari, 
Maithili, 
Naipali, 
Marathi, 
Gujarati, 
Panjabi, 
Sindhi, 
Bangali, 
Onya, 
S5k -v 
- ^ ; 
- 
- ^\T, ^rr ; 
- ^T, 'ft, % %, "ST, ft ; 
- ^T, ft, *rt, Hi; 
- fl> ft, f ; 
- %T, ft, f, 3IT ; 
- ^ or TC ; 
- 
The only attempt at an explanation of the origin of these post-positions 
that I remember to have met with, is one made by Bopp in his Comparative 
Grammar, para. 340, note. J 
He compares the Hindi genitives formed by means of the post-positions 
«ffT, etc., with the Sanskrit genitive plural HginKH of hihh I, and of 
thou, etc. These words are possessive pronomina (our and your) formed by 
the affix Others also have referred to this Sanskrit affix or ft * 4 , which 
expresses relation or possession, as an explanation of the Hindi post-positions. 
But there are serious objections to this theory. 
* By Dr. Stevenson, in tire Jonrnal of the Bombay Asiatic Society. 
t Cf. Dr. Caldwell’B Comparative Grammar, p. 39. He seems, however, inclined to 
admit a Sanskritie origin of the genitive post-positions, cf. p. 246. 
X He says : Es verdient bemerkt zu werden, dass im Hindostanischen die Formen, 
die man in beideu zalrlen alier deolinations-faehigen woerter ais genitive aufstellt, 
sich als unverkennbare possessiva herausstellen, dadurch dass sie sich nach dem 
Geschlechte des folgonden Substantives richten. Die pronomina erster und zweiter 
person haben im masc, rft, im fern, rt, als possessiv suffix, die iibrigen woerter im 
masc. k&, im Fern, ki j ka aber stimmt zum skr. suffix ka von asmaka, yusnraka, 
mamaka, tftvaka. 
