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ted at all into any play. There is nothing surprising in the fact that, among 
only about fourteen instances of grW, the form fag or gig should never oc- 
cur, seeing that the latter was probably the more vulgar expression of the two. 
And here 1 may call attention to the oft-observed fact that what had been once 
vulgar or slang phrases, or grammatical forms, during the classical period of a 
language, generally becomes the material out of which the language after its 
decay reconstructs itself. This law is well illustrated by the Romance lan- 
guages. “ The sources of Italian are not to he found in the classical Literature 
of Rome, hut in the popular dialects of Italy. Hindustani is not the 
daughter of Sanskrit, as we find it in the Vedas, or in the later literature of 
the Brahmans ; it is a branch of the living speech of India, springing from 
the same stem from which Sanskrit sprang, when it first assumed its literary 
independence.”* (2.) Moreover, there is direct proof that fagi and ggT were 
used in a determinative sense. In Sanskrit, sfifi', the locative singular of 
«SrT, is sometimes employed to express the dative. Even there it has nearly 
lost its originally predicative meaning, and has come to he regarded almost 
like a mere case-affix. But in the Prakrit and Gaurian, s5<i as well as other 
similar Sanskrit words, e. g., ^ (Marathi gfat), ggvfa (Bangali grri, Hindi 
gfa) , have become mere case — signs of the dative. N ow is rendered in the 
Prakrit promiscuously by gfagf (or fagfa), or by fgrg, or by gig. Examples 
of gggi are the following — 
gif rg fa gig rfa srmrTfo ii i. e. 
Skr. % gfa ggj sfa tw 3>vj sngrfg n or 
High Hindi : g gfa fa gg gr fag ( gigi g ) gg *fig V ll 
Or : grigrcg fg g II i- e. 
Skr. ggfai ■gigrg: sgsfa g sngrfg n or 
High Hindi : g uwt fa giTg fag ( gjTgT g ) gg *r' 3fTgg\ # I 
Mrichchhakati. 
Or : ire giw fa II *’• e - 
Skr. uu gggw gfa n or 
High Hindi : gg Jifat fag g fag % ll 
Or : yg trggrgtggigfagig Tugg fa u *• e - 
Skr. vg vfa u or 
High Hindi : gg rift vrsn % gr^T gtarg gr fag g n 
Ditto, Act. VI. page, 186. 
Examples of fag are — 
grgj fag g;g gjrggT ll i- e. 
* Max Muller, Lectures ou the Science of Language, Lect. II., page 67. The 
greater part of that lecture (pp, 60 to 80) is devoted to this sirhject of what M. M. 
calls “ dialectio regeneration.” 
