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Naipali ; nominative word, gen. fiVT gsT ; 
but 
VT5TT king 
^rsfnvr son 
trfs course 
lord 
^3TT *»TT 
*IWIPT SfiT 
vte 357 
w 
(Examples from St. Luke’s Gospel.) 
gen. -SJVT »TT 
but 
tt 
neut. 7?T*r gold 
tt 
irsrt 37 
tt 
masc. ^3 God 
tt 
^3 5fT 
tt 
„ TT5JT king 
tt 
'rrsTT ifT 
tt 
„ shoe maker 
tt 
37 
tt 
„ sweetmeat 
tt 
^5 
tt 
fern. «iT^rr girl 
ft 
3T«?TT 
tt 
„ book 
ft 
3 ml W7 
tt 
„ mother-in-law 
ft 
tt 
„ yellow myr. 
ft 
37 
>t 
„ churnings taff 
ft 
73 37 
tt 
„ Ur iguana 
tt 
vt 3r 
?> 
neut. gjar^r thicket 
ft 
sraiTar 37 
tt 
„ qr«Tt water 
tt 
373 d art 
(See Grammar of Shapurji Edalji.) 
It is manifest that all these Gaurian languages allow an oblique form 
only to such nouns as have passed directly or immediately from the Prakrit 
into the Gaurian, which form part, as it were, of the original stock of voca- 
bles with which the Gaurian started on its way of development, when it 
first began to become a distinct language beside Prakrit. These nouns 
(viz. those which admit of an oblique form) I shall always in future dis- 
tinguish briefly as the Pralcritic elements of the Gaurian. 
Besides these Pralcritic elements of the Gaurian, there is another class 
of nouns in the above-mentioned languages (viz. Hindi, Panjabi, Sindh i, 
Gujarati, Naipali, which I shall in future call for brevity’s sake the Hindi- 
class Gaurian), the naturo of which is unmistakable to any one acquainted 
with the phonetic peculiarities of Prakrit and Sanskrit. They are purely 
Sanskrit. As the Prakrit tolerates no compound consonant in the begin- 
ning, nor a dissimilar compound consonant in the middle of a word ; further 
as it generally either changes a medial surd mute consonant to the corre- 
sponding sonant one, or elides it altogether ; and as it generally changes 
an aspirate mute consonant to the simple aspirate it follows, that, 1, every 
Gaurian word containing a compound consonant in the beginning or a dis- 
similar compound consonant in the middle must be Sanslcritic (barring of 
course all foreign words) ; 2. Most Gaurian words containing a medial 
surd mute or aspirate are Sanslcritic, e. //., wrath is in Hindi both JfiTt) and 
