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^r?irf is the original of P#qtqi, so W<T is the original of qrqf (or qrsrqi) ; 
and 3 irr has the same meaning as garf (or qqqiqf), just as qrr means 
the same as. qqrx doer, and qfTX in the phrases T"Slfi ^TPCfl, [qnxm, &c., 
(cf. Siddlianta Ivaumudi to Pan. 3, 4, 27, Yol. II, page 4G8) the same as 
qqnr “ manner.” 
But to return to the phonetic changes which ^xqi underwent, it is 
well known rule in Prakrit, that non-initial single mute consonants ar 
elided (cf. Prakrit a I’rakasa II, 2.). Accordingly q<T becomes a 
form which occurs in several of the examples already quoted. When two 
vowels meet in consequence of such an elision of a consonant, they are 
often contracted* in Prakrit already (cf. Pr. Prak. IV. 1.), hut still 
more in its descendant, the Gaurian. Hence i&rir becomes in the Gaurian 
%tt, and this again changes into #XT. Thus the Sanskrit hraqb, horse, is 
in Prakrit inf7.iT, in the Gaurian hpff (Alwari and Sindhi), or hif T (High 
Hindi). On the change of the final to ^iT, as well as the change of the 
feminine termination qjT to T in see some remarks below and in Essay IV. 
From #vt (or %TT), q»T, may be derived immediately the modern 
forms ?TT (or qu), qrl, qi, by another step of phonetic decay. The elision of 
a medial X, though not noted in the Sutras of Vararuchi, occurs occasion- 
ally in the later Prakrit ; e, g., qx, for qfx, in 
qrqWTT i| i. e. 
Sanskrit, ^qifqiqqfcxqifqqqTfW i 
^TflflTSnfXiqi^T^Tfs)' n 
Karp ura Mapjari Sattaka, verse 2. 
But in the Gaurian the elision of a medial single X is not without 
example. For instance, the conjunction q, but, clearly stands for the San- 
skrit qxn, which occurs in Hindi also, and more commonly as qx. Simi- 
larly, the Ganwdri sign of the genitive qi has arisen from the other 
Ganwari and poetic form qrx. Another Hindi word qiX (qrf<) which, how- 
ever, has a different origin and stands for the Prakrit qifxq (Sanskrit qr^i), 
also becomes not uncommonly qi, especially in the older poets like Kabir, 
e -a-, ^ ^ ^ 
qs%T vrq qw qi 5nqt q’qq - q> flTrit ii or 
High Hindi, qr%r qjfqtuq qiq qifx arrq' q«q qifx fli?' h 
There is no great difficulty, therefore, in deriving qrr, qil, qi, from qjvq, 
%Xt ; qiX, still another derivation is possible which I shall presently give, and 
odd reply made by a little girl to the question, whose child she was carrying. Co’ is 
little j y euphonic.” — I think also, it can he shown that the affix by means of which 
many Sanskrit genitives are formed, is nothing else but a possessive pronominal base, 
equivalent to the common possessive pronominal base XI, meaning “own.” 
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