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(i. e., masculine %r. feminine plural and oblique HIT) ; e. g., the past parti- 
ciple passive of to write, used to form the perfect tense active, is 
(i. e., Sans. fiHfrifG) ; but with the proper passive sense, it is HiT (i. e. 
Sanskrit f^rfisTFr: or Hindi 1%HIT SNT or HHT), thus “the Gospel written 
by Luke” is ^ r TJHHWTNTT (i e. Sanskrit SINN eRfr: TJH- 
HHTNFO or Hindi ! QH«rHT r ) ; but “ Luke wrote a Gospel” 
is ^i^jr sjhhHTNIN (i. e., Sanskrit ^r%sr %f«slcr: TIHHHTHKb or Hindi 
fls, 
NtHT Vf f^figx uqviHHr^n:)- A few other examples are : HTTP? Nthtt 
VNT HiT ITT H^HNK HT3 Y<T HHTN1 HTT TNHT *• e., High Hindi %?; VfJiy STTWH 
Hf% 5V if h« Hi"? TH «sf r hnt Nr (Lit. Sanskrit HTOTfa srJT^N? HraTj HT%- 
<TfH HHr HTHNTHHlHDT ^ 7 f: nmrfHH: Urf: f^jTrs) St. Luke i, 20, 27. 
Again, <3 HTfHH f*fff rrrs^Ti H HT eft fvjr. i. e., High Hindi HN vhj 
HNN % NTH ntj^tT hn! JpTt vft (or Sanskrit NT HoTT S<TT St. 
Luke i, 27. Again, ht ftsfil W *- e., High Hindi Vfpr fsivrn ^TT 
NHT % (or Sanskrit Ndi gffi-TsfHl) St. Luke i, 14. Again, ^ NlHir HNJT Hit 
%T NT irsf Hf-HHI nht i. e., High Hindi hh H(H> 'fft war NrTlHT 
SNr. In this last example, the participle %f and the genitive affix qrr 
are side by side.* 
Whichever be thought the more probable derivation of HTT, either from 
'fT'T or f'fT'p — and this can only be decided after a more thorough examina- 
tion of the earliest Gaurian literature — I hope, I have succeeded in proving 
so much beyond doubt, that the Sanskrit participle eid is in one form or the 
other the original of the genitive post-positions. 
There remains briefly to consider the post-positions in the other Gau- 
rian languages. In the case of most of them my remarks are not meant to be 
* A very similar, thougli not quite so parallel case is that of vjj, a past participle 
of NT*TT, to he, which still occurs in the Ganwari, and is also met with now and then in 
Tulsi Das. It stands for the High Hindi aTN (Sanski’it W«T - ), and the Low Hindi WHT, 
or HHT- It occurs, for instance, in the following verse of Tulsi Das, 
NH HTf# HT HVfH NHHWIT II i. e. 
High Hindi : HHf SHT Hv TNT N NHHTH II 
Sundar kand. 
HT is, a curtailment of the Low Hindi VRT or HHT, which are both probably de- 
rived from a Prakrit (for Sanskrit Wjfi) . Prom Hfq^f, by the elision of 
would come VltHHT, Vli)T, WHT, and from the same, by the elision of both ^ and H, would 
come «?;NT = N*TT = HUT. Another parallel case, I believe, wo have in the syllable 
31T (femhnno Hi, plural H), which forms the Hindi future tense ; e. g., tHAI, he will be 
For it stands probably for HHT, the Hindi past participle of NTHT, to go ; and JTHT itself 
is connectedjvith the Sanskrit Hrfb and Prakrit HHT or (with insertion of an eupho- 
nious *0 HHT- Compare also HI in the Low Hindi phrase HT 5JTHT, to bo found, 
for HINT 5JT«TT, and HIT, the Low Hindi for Hffi, what ? 
