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1873.] A. F. Rudolf Hoernle— Essays on the Gaurian Languages. 
analogy of the pronominal forms RTTH for RfiH for fsr^jr, the Prakrit 
genitives RRRJ, e ^ c -> become in the Gaurian rrth, rtrIm, 
etc., i. e ., the forms which we see in the Marathi. The original genitive 
character ol the Marathi dative in h is further proved by the dative formed 
by means of the so-called postposition wdT; e. g., rr has a dative 
RRTRTCt besides RRTR or rrt ^q; or RTIR has RTRtRT^f beside RTRpj or 
^ has beside JjRRT and TiRRH. These forms (as rRirtsT’ 
RTRWtrI , JjWTfft, etc.,) have always been derived thus ; rrt (base) -f- 
(postposition), Rift + HTRf, under the mistaken notion, that 
as RRT, RfFt, etc. are the bases in all the other cases (e. g., instr. 
RRT-f H } dative RRT + ^tt, abl. RRT + ^*r, etc.), the same base must be 
contained also in the forms RRTRT^f, etc. But it has never been shown 
what the meaning and derivation of the word RT^f might be. The truth 
is, that RT^t is no word at all; and that the forms rrtrtrF, etc., have been 
wrongly divided. They ought to be separated thus ; rrjr (base) and 
postposition, RiRtR + , 31RR -f wf, etc. The postposition 
is the Prakrit and Gaurian equivalent of the Sanskrit Rjlq which, however, 
in the Gaurian may also be modified to RfTRf and hence the Marathi has 
beside RRTR -j- RlcTt also RRT -j- RT?ft (compare Skr. 3KJTR which becomes in 
Mar. and Beng. in Hindi and Panj. rtr). Hence RRTRTeff, i. e. rrtr 
) stands for Skr. rrrj RJR or Prak. RRRT ; again RrRtR 
is =Prak. rtFr^ RJ3fRT = Skr. RiRRRiR; again ^Csf = Prak. JIW 
0 R& vj 
Skr. 31TTR-RR. 
j r . . 
So far then it is plain that the Marathi dative ending in R is in reality 
tli e organic genitive of the Prakrit. # Now in old Marathi poetry another 
dative form has been preserved which ends in RfT, e. g., God, dative 
RRRT (see Manual, p. 138). There can be no doubt that this form in Rfr is but 
a further modification or corruption of the more original and more perfect 
form in R ; that, e. g., RRRT is a curtailment of RRRTR. It may have arisen 
thus ; in the Gaurian a final short vowel is not pronounced, so that the 
* In the oldest Hindi of Chand Bar dal instances of this organic genitive in ^ 
which in the modern Marathi only occurs in the sense of the dative, are still found 
with their original Gen. sense ; o. g., 
<TTR RT^T RRlR I Or. RpR RHR ftftRTRR RT*T RTR I 
R-%t Fr^HI RRFR II R R ^R RtR R R RTR II 
i. e. Skr. w TTW* RhIt etc. Skr. rF^ HR h!r rF? ^ HR! II etc. 
Sasivritta Katha XXV. 1G. Ibid. XXV. 3G. 
Or. RTR"3R RTFrf I Or. RT RR ^ RTR ?IR I 
RrF?IR *tFr *?fR II RR ^ HRT FrFr qR II 
Skr. rrFjiFr RRT RR1 etc. Skr. RRJ JZR RuRI etc. 
Ibid. XXV. 15. Ibid. XXV. 16. 
