1872.] Hoernle — Essays on the Gaurian Languages. 151 
3tTT becomes in Gaurian srirr* This is the Proper Gaurian form beside 
which the Gaurian possesses the word also in the Sanshritic form utvit. The 
earliest Gaurian form of ^Irf is ^t(, which is as nearly as possible like the 
Prakrit utit. It occurs e. g., in Chand’s Prithiraja Rayasa (III. 64) ; 
z(ti fnf? «r irr, i. «rr?r »nPf ^ ii Again 
Sanskrit = Prakrit becomes in Gaurian *^35. a form which 
occurs very commonly in Hindi poetry ; similarly poetical Hindi has 
gain for Prakrit ~r%T = Sanskrit ; or order, command for Prakrit 
== Sanskrit ^T^w: ; e. //., in Tulsi Das’s Ramayan. 
sitP? 1 
^ vl ^ 
*3T cRToT rlV RTiW-T II i. e. 
H. H. fare R>r nvrhRvr id 1 
*rr csi*i 11 
Ayodhya Kand. 
Beside these a great many other such nouns in ^ are met with in 
poetical Hindi ; in fact, I have no doubt, every noun, that now in Hindi 
prose ends in ^.f What is, thus, a form confined in Hindi to the old and 
poetic language, appears in Sindhi to he preserved in the common modem 
language. Dr, Trumpp says : “ The old Prakrit ending in o has in Sindhi 
been split up into two great classes, one of which has corrupted the Prakrit 
(final) o into u, the other has preserved it unchanged.” He adds : “ It 
is noteworthy that many words which in Sindhi end in o, in Hindi end in 
a, while on the other hand the short final u in Sindhi has in Hindi been 
thrown away or become quiescent.” (Of. Journ. Germ. As. Society, vol. 
XVI, p. 131). Also in the common modern Naipali an important instance of 
that form has been preserved. The nominative plural is there formed by 
adding to the noun. Now is nothing else but a modification of the 
Prakrit %Tt, Sanskrit ifc: multitude. Though this form has disappeared from 
for T having a woman’s faoe), but comp. Pr. Prak. VI, 6 (e. g , for 
of what). Note that in Prakrit all these forms are optional, but not in Gaurian. X 
may add a few examples from the Mrichchhakatika : — 
3VI isuwv ^rf twl 1 e. 
Slcr. vpnfg fffir w 11 
Again | - Sanskrit fsiv: e (Tiff II 
* A few other instances are in Hindi 7312 , bed, for Prakrit 7§f~r ; Sanskrit 7 gipT ; 
flute, for Prakrit ^tuif, Sanskrit sjpsjf ; ttflol, shame, for Prakrit Sanskrit 
; 5f|U, tongue, for Prakrit ( or SftWT ), Sanskrit shade, for 
Prakrit -t? T (see Pr. Prak. II, 18.), Sanskrit at mi- 
t These archaic forms are very common in poetry, only it should be noted that as 
they generally occur at the end of a line, they are usually lengthened to for metre’s 
sake. 
