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Hoernle — Essays on the Gaurian Languages. 
Skr. w ii or 
High Hindi : fare % fasfa? *i i? II 
Batnavali, Act II, page 57. 
Or : sffar g*i fajfanr^^w^Tns^fai^ *iwimre il i. e. 
Skr. ssgiTrr ^j?rg?fa*iTW 3fh... . ll or 
High Hindi : «pt‘ g; % fa# ... v^imiii ^r<f\ y « 
Venisamhara, Act II. page. 35. 
An example of qrg is the following — 
tit? n^-vrr^li urufa^fa; ll i. e. 
Skr. tit? n^nrfjmji: g# ■ssimi’TPu?#! ^TT^r^j^r n or 
High Hindi : nnr ^wnt # fa?# wttt ^Prr % il 
Mrichchhakati, Act X. page 323. 
It is more than probable then, that if fa#, or was used beside 
to express the dative, fa#T orTj#T was also employed beside to express 
the genitive. And I think it not impossible, that a more careful and ex- 
tensive examination of Prakrit and the earliest Gaurian literature, might bring 
to light instances of the use of fa#T or as affixes of the genitive. 
But to proceed with the consideration of fa#T. By the usual elision of 
the medial mute consonant, the form farin' would arise. This is, indeed, the 
usual form in which the participle ssn appears in the earlier Hindi poets 
(especially Sura Das), where it is written fa#T, with a slight accommodation 
to the pronunciation to avoid the hiatus. Generally, however, in such cases the 
vowel X before in is changed to the corresponding semivowel g; e. g., Sanskrit 
= Prakrit rf?% = Hindi T!W ; Sanskrit nffajrp = Prakrit = 
Hindi <r#b &c., and in the Brajbliasha r^r, qrtjr, etc. Accordingly, fafiSiT 
would become #r, and in the Braj Bhasha 4#. The reason why it is changed 
to farin' (or faftjT) is simply euphonism, an initial double consonant being 
difficult to pronounce. But when in other words (t#T, the double 
consonant would be medial and hence divisible between the two enclosing 
syllables, it is not avoided ; and for the same reason the word fa#T itself, when 
it is compounded with a prefix, is spelt #3T in the Naipali ; e. g., 5J«I V3 
= Hindi 5 R -siTf^ fapmjTT ( = S. fapWT:). This is but the ap- 
plication of a well known Sanskrit Sandhi rule, according to which, e. g., fat 
+ = fv^faf j jj + ^jfar = JJ^frT, but faflft + = fat#, WPT + % = 
WI^t: (cf. Siddh. Kaum. to Pan. G, 4, 77, G4, 82, page 118.) Now when far# 
is used to express the genitive, it is no more an independent word, but has 
sunk down to the position of an affix, and forms a compound with its 
concomitant word. Hence, cpj would have a medial position and, therefore, 
would not be avoided. Hence fafifT, when used as a sort of genitive affix, 
would be contracted into efm (or tRT). 
Lastly #r would, for reasons of euphony, be contracted into %T (or 3>T or 
cfTT) ; just as the harsher forms Trfjf or or T, &e., of the Braj 
