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time, phonetically curtailed' into T, but not X having been expanded to v:r. 
Hence the use of X will indicate a later inflexional formation ; and accord- 
ingly we find that all those real Bangal! (». e., not Sanskrit ic ) nouns, to 
which the gen. sign. K is added beloug to the proper Oaurian element. The 
principles distinguishing the Gaurian element, as explained already are, that 
the Gaurian adopts the nouns of its parent language (Prakrit or Sanskrit) 
in that form which they have there in the nom. ease ; and the nouns thus- 
adopted in their old nom. case, become anew the base; to which the inflexional 
signs of the Gaurian declension are added. This base I call the inflexional 
hase in opposition to the crude base which is the base to which the inflexional 
signs (or affixes) pf the Sanskrit or Prakrit are added, and which is that 
which the noun exhibits before any inflexional sign at all is added ; e. g., 
horse is the crude base to which in Sanskrit or Prakrit, the inflexional signs 
(or affixes) arc added. The affix of the nom. sing, in Sanskrit is the visarga 
O', e., ^), in Prakrit % ; hence tho nom. sing, of in Sanskrit is 
; in Prakrit (or ifi-fifi). In this form ilT^T the noun is 
adopted by the Gaurian ; and this form or (by tho modification 
already explained) UT^l becomes in the Gaurian, the base to which the 
inflexional signs (or post-positions) are added. Hence in .Bangui! the nom. 
sing, of the inflexional base ilPsT is irrfT (the nom. not being distinguished 
by any sign, i. e., being identical with the Prakrit nominative) ; the gen. 
sing, to -(- ^ or hr?TT, etc. Similarly elephant (being the Prakrit 
nom. sing. TWt, Sanskrit of the crude base ) has in the nom. 
sing. gen. sing. ^Tvjt -+■ T or Again «TT lac has in the gen. 
sing. 3 tt -f- ^ or srK. 
The case of those Bangui! nouns which add the sign ift in the gen. 
sing, is probably a different one. It has been shown already in the llnd 
essay that is a curtailment of and that was added not only 
in the pleonastic way to tho genitive of the noun, hut also often com- 
pounded with the noun itself to signify the gen. case oi the latter, and 
since only in composition (excepting the isolated case oi the enclitic 
particle qvrr ) an initial single consonant is dropped, it is the most 
natural way to account for the origin of if’C to suppose that all the 
nouns to which it is added, are in the form of the crude base with which 
(i. e ., with the initial elided) is compounded. Now all nouns 
(or rather their crude bases) with which is compounded, end in “3? ; 
and coming into Sandhi with the diphthong ^ ol was dropped; e.g., 
tiger is (Prakrit crude base for the Sanskrit crude hase ), and 
its gen. in Prakrit might be expressed by UT'd%r^T ; tliis in Bangui! would 
change to or '315 - UK or ^TTO, just as, e. g., = 
vffllT shoemaker. It will be noticed that this way of adding or com- 
pounding w-r with the crude base of tho noun is not according to the 
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