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which is not open to this difficulty. Before, however, proceeding to the con- 
sideration of it, I will dispose of another genitive post-position which, there 
appears little doubt, is really derived from ^tt and thus medially from the 
Prakrit viz. the Bangdli genitive post-position XX, and the Bangali 
and Oriya C 
In Bangali, all adjectives which are derived through the Prakrit appear 
in the crude base (that is without the Prakrit endings sit [masculine] or VjT or 
^ [feminine] and anuswara [neuter]), and hence are alike in all genders and 
cases, e. g., WIT siPST^, little boy, and irz Trf%*RT, little girl (cf. Shama Churn 
Sircar’s Bangali Grammar, page 75, 2nd edition). Hence the Prakrit or 
contracted ifiKT, would in Bangali become ffiC Now this form tfir occurs now 
and then in Tulsi Das, who, in his Ramayan, has laid all the principal Gaurian 
languages, and Bangali among them, under contribution. An instance of a 
verse containing it, has been already quoted. I have above referred to the 
Prakrit rule of eliding a medial single mute consonant. The term medial 
includes also the initial consonant of a word which forms the last part of a 
compound (cf. Pr. Prak. II, 2 ) ; e. g., Sanscrit becomes in Prakrit 
^3PC*JT ; Sanskrit finiavTC becomes in Pr krit finpiiTTT. in Gaurian ; 
Sanskrit becomes Prakrit ^jjVjTXT, Gaurian ^K. I have also 
shown that, though in Prakrit i 9 generally used pleonastically, so that 
its concomitant word is also in the genitive case, yet in some instances it is 
made to form a compound with its concomitant word which thou drops 
its genitive inflexion. This latter usage seems to have become exclusively 
established in the Bangali, and in using in composition with the word in 
the genitive case, the initial of the former is elided regularly. Thus we 
arrive at VC Take for instance the genitive of T? wire a child ; it would be vrwnvr 
this would change to and this to or (by contraction 
of the two adjoining vowels) ^wrrkr, which is the present genitive in Bangali. 
By analogy, the other Bangali genitive post-position T, which it shares with 
the Oriya, is probably a curtailment of the genitive sign <fiT, still occurring 
in Tulsi Das and in the Ganwari. 
It has been already noticed that the Sanskrit equivalent for the Prakrit 
is VuT. But -gfcT assumes various forms in Prakrit. Perhaps the most 
common, though not the most regular, form of it is (where the change 
of v? to c takes place by Pr. Prak. I, 28, and that of <T to ^ by Pr. Prak. 
II, 7), e. g., 
c fkc n=Sanskrit ^ % 3 kHT ll 
Or : vmvrsr n= Sanskrit c'reprn fwvfrT li 
Or : vd fcp-J wrf< n=Sanskrit xx fk ii 
N ext comes the form efc, foimed regularly according to Pr. Prak. I, 27, and 
II, 7, e. g., 
n= Sanskrit ii 
