60 A. F. Rudolf Hoernle— j Essays on the Gaurian Languages. [No. 1, 
qf?T, fS?r, etc.), or to substitute (according to the precedent of Sanskrit) 
the o-enitive. The latter is on the whole the more common course.* The 
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Gaurian languages which have received their grammatical system from the 
Prakrit (or, at all events, not from the Sanskrit), it is manifest, cannot 
possess an organic dative ; and, it is more than probable, a priori, that what 
passes in them for the dative is (according to the precedent of Prakrit) 
either a paraphrase of the dative or a substituted (organic) genitive. The 
former course, viz. to paraphrase the dative by postpositions, as is well 
known, has become the almost universal rule in the Gaurian.f The only 
exception (barring isolated instances in other languages) is in the Marathi. 
This language possesses by the side of the ordinary paraphrastic datives 
(formed with the postpositions ^T, ^RT, ^iTrff, etc., cf. Manual, pp. 17, 
18,) a form of the dative ending in H which has all the appearance of being an 
organic case-form ; e. g., dative of God is Y*th (besides ^T^fT, etc.) ; 
of efffsr poet it is (besides qRrtRTT, etc-.) ; of it is 31W (besides 
• • • • ^ 
31^^17, etc.). This dative in H is generally admitted (cf. Manual, pp. 132,133), 
and can easily be shown to be nothing but the organic genitive of the 
Prakrit. For the genitive of ^7, and 3j^ in Prakrit is 
(cf. Prak. Prak. Y. 8, 15). Now I have already explained in the 2nd Essay 
that in the later Prakrit and in Gaurian, one of two similar compounded 
consonants is elided and the preceding vowel lengthened (see Prak. Prak. Ill, 
58.). Accordingly the genitive of the pronoun ^tt (base ^r) in Prakrit is 
masc. or «TW, fern. or (or oTT^;) ; of the fern, base fsr the gen. 
is or «rt% (or sf!^) ; see Prak. Prak. YI. 6, 6.J According to the 
# Examples from the Sakuntala : 
cjj II i. e. 
Skr. sfiT II 
Or. ViT || i. e . 
From the Uttara Ramacharita : 
WT WWW WT i. e. 
Skr. w: eTRTW^: WT n 
Or. W WWKW f ll i. e. 
Skr. 3T11 WWKF5T: irPPZlfw II 
f The regular process of glottic development form Sanskrit to Gaurian is here, 
worth noting; the dative is expressed in the 
Sanskrit by the dative or genitive ; 
Prakrit by the —— genitive, or paraphrase ; 
Gaurian by the-paraphrase. 
X The same is the case with the Magadhi Prakrit genitive in ; e, g,, 
Skr, is iu M. Prak.-q Here ^ is the modification of an original w 
so that qf%"3TTTf stands for an d this for just as f° r 
which in M. Prak, would be (cf. Pr. Prak. XI, 12.) 
