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meaning of was no more felt ; it had become like a mere affix and 
had assumed an enclitic position, forming one word with Hence, as in 
compound words, the (now medial) consonant 31 was elided, and the two ad- 
joining vowels 5+1 contracted (by dropping c) ; thus we have iff' 
— hlir Finally as in High Hindi the harsh diphthong % was changed to 
the more agreeable vowel ; thus iri% gT. The process here assumed is 
well illustrated by the origin of the interrogative pronoun who. In 
Prakrit the interrogative pronoun *fiT ( = Sanskrit qr:) has almost invariably 
appended to it, the enclitic thus #7 here the consonant^ is 
always elided ; thus 'SW ; in the Gaurian again the two adjoining vowels 
^ are contracted (by dropping 'S ), thus ^vr*T-* 
The Sindhi post-positions 3H, 5j), 5J, aiT may have originated from the 
form f+frilT (= farijT = %^t), by exactly the same process as explained above 
in the case of 37 ; thus f^rer = =» %1% hb Finally the ini- 
tial semivowel U of hi would change, according to a general rule of the 
Prakrit (P. P. II, 31) and Gaurian, into the palatal consonant 5?; thus 
ifT-t 
The Gujar&ti post-positions (vf), sf, etc.) I am inclined to derive from 
an obsolete Prakrit form of sfirl\ via. fsfiieT or fiuiT in the same way as the 
Panjabi 37 from or the Sindhi an from f3SUT. That such a Prakrit 
form must have once existed, is clearly proved by the Hindi. In poetry, an 
old Hindi form 3Tr37 or qftvrT often occurs equivalent to made or done. 
Two other old Hindi past participial forms, exactly analogous to them, also 
occur in poetry, vie. Cl 5 ?! or g+vTT given (= Sanskrit 3 t 1 :) and or ^friTT. 
taken (= Sanskrit Now the derivation of 3^Hl is well assured 
Here I will only say that I consider the termination ^ to be a modification of the 
Sanskrit genitive termination ^i*SJ (of bases in XI), which in Prakrit becomes (or 
SJjThf or ^1N) or if The enrtailment of 'i3fi3T or 3! into must be supposed to 
have taken place contemporaneously with the modification of the Prakrit termination 
or^TN or hi into the Gaurian 'I (Hindi, Panjabi, Sindhi) or ^iT (Mar. Gujar.). 
* A Prakrit lingual ^ generally changes into the dental *T in Hindi. In the 
Alwar dialect the pronoun is still #T 5 3*T ; in the Ganwarf and in Hindi poetry (e. g. of 
Chand Bardai) it is compare in Marathi "^7 fourth for the Prakrit It 
may be noticed also that ths vowels T and ^ which are elided, are preceded by their 
own corresponding diphthongs X and ^1T. 
+ The Sindhi post-positions admit, however, also of a different explanation. Their 
initial Straight bo merely a softening of the initial which we have in the Marathi. 
As a somewhat parallel case we may compare the Nipali Hi (they are), to which corre- 
sponds in the Low Hindi of Alwar If and in High Hindi (i. e. Sanskrit Hprl). 
$ Of these pairs those containing the are later and occur generally in Tulsi 
