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Hoemle — Essays on the Gaurian Languages. [No. 2, 
Gaurian genitive post-positions with the noun qualified by them will be easily 
understood — 
Singular. 
Plural. 
Direct case. Oblique cases. Direct case. Oblique cases. 
-A — 
r 
mas. 
fern, neutr. 
mas. 
High Hindi 
diT 
ft 
— 
f 
Braj Bliashd, .... 
diT 
ft 
— 
f 
A1 war dialect, ... 
— 
f 
Ganwari, 
-ti 
di 
— 
f 
Maithili, 
di 
di 
— 
dr 
Naipali, 
f t 
ft 
— 
diT 
Marathi, 
'ft 
fr 
^11 
or 
Gujarati,* 
WT 
ft 
xr' 
WT 
Panjabi, 
fi 
ft 
f 
Sindhi, 
fri 
ft 
— 
f 
Bangali, . 
<rc 
xrx: 
vr 
or 
or 
or 
or 
T 
K 
T 
x: 
Oriya, 
XT 
x: 
T 
T 
fem. 
\ I 
neutr. mas. 
fem. neutr. 
mas. fem. neutr. 
ft 
— ^ 
ft 
— 
f 
ft 
— 
ft 
— f 
ft 
— 
f 
ft 
— 
ft 
— diT 
ft 
— 
f 
ft 
— 
•v 
«v 
d? 
— df 
dr 
— 
dr 
dr 
— 
dr 
— di 
di 
— 
dr 
dr 
— 
ft 
— drr 
ft 
— 
diT 
ft 
— 
'dJT f 
w ft 
'djr 
'dir 
'dll 
or 
or 
or 
or 
or 
% 
f 
% 
f 
ft 
HT WT 
ft 
xrt 
xrr 
ft 
xrr 
ft 
— f 
ft 
— 
f 
ft 
— 
— OH 
ft 
— 
fr 
sit 
— 
VT 
vr vc 
rtx; 
^x: 
ox; 
dx; 
dx; 
or 
• or or 
or 
or 
or 
or 
or 
T 
t x: 
X 
x: 
x: 
x: 
x; 
T 
x: x; 
X 
x; 
x; 
x; 
x: 
The adjective character of these so-called post-positions indicates that 
we must look for a nominal source of them in Sanskrit. 
It is a well-known observation that in poetry and in the vulgar dialects, 
old grammatical forms are often preserved which have been altogether lost 
in the cultivated dialects. These archaic forms do the same service to the 
student of language as fossil remains do to the student of geology. They 
discover to us language in its earliest state from which it has developed into 
its present form.t 
In the Ganwari dialect, sometimes, there is found in the genitive the 
post-position 'STT, or diT, instead of It is there confined to the pronominal 
declension ; e. g., T?J diT, of him, is in Gunwari V^pc, or Vdi ; rxj % is Vdif , or 
df ; KJf diT, of them, is or H 5 ? ^ ^ # is V’^drx:, or f ; again, 
* The forms as in use among tbo Mardthis and Gujaratis settled in Benares and 
Gaya (and probably anywhere in the Hindi country) differ slightly from those given 
above. In Marathi the form of the direct case plural of the neuter is f , instead of 
and in the Gujarati, the form of the oblique cases singular in all three genders is alike 
sj- instead of sff, f , qj-, These differences are evidently merely assimilations to the 
Hindi. 
f “ In every country it is in the poetry and in the speech of the peasantry that 
the ancient condition oflangnage is best studied.” Dr. Caldwell, Comp. Gram., p. 31. 
