68 A. F. Rudolf Hoemle —j Essays on the Gaurlan Languages. [No. 1, 
the Prakrit base would be This form according 
to the process already explained, would successively change to ^TTnfV^T^— 
or which last form is identical with the oblique 
form of the Marathi . 
Then as regards the low Hindi forms for the Marathi ; viz., ^T*TT 
^prirf, ; the way how they are derived from the original Skr. <frrfrt;q 
or Prak. is, probably, this. It does not seem probable that the 
sounds %jT, %, ^5 are merely modifications of ^; at least I am not aware of 
any example of such a change of a terminal ^ to or ijT or Put w r e 
have seen on the previous page how the Prakrit form would collo¬ 
quially change into Now there are many instances which prove 
that for the vowel ^ of the polished Prakrit the vulgar Prakrit dialects 
substituted the broader ^ % e. g., in Marathi we have as the termination 
of the past part. pass, the affix (as got loose') which stands for 
the Prakrit ^ or fyr (see Pr. Prak. VII, 32) ; above we had the 
vulgar form for the more polished form Thus it is 
probable that instead of the vulgar dialect pronounced or, 
with the euphonic yj, «fR;yT5b And finally would become naturally 
contracted to , of which or ^iTcf are merely dialectic variations. 
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The first personal pronoun in the low Hindi of Braj ego (Alwari and High 
Hindi ) affords a very good illustration of this change of the terminal 
to . Its equivalent in Sanskrit is which in Prakrit becomes 
^ or ^ (cf. Pr. Prak. VII, 40.). Now the form ^ could not have yielded 
the Gfaurian form ; it could only have given just as sjt house gives cry;, 
but not ^PCT • Hence the original of must be the other form and this 
violates no glottic law. # It may, therefore, be accepted as a law that the 
Prakrit is F; e. g., Pali by, from, to, of a virgin, but in Prakrit ; Pali 
"Prak. ; Pali cf'Spgr = Prak. The Pali is here nearer to the Skr., 
where these forms would be respectively (genitive) vpg-p, Similarly 
in the causal where the syllable is always contracted to y; in Prakrit, but only 
optionally in Pali; e. g., Skr. = Pali or ^ — Prak. e^f^- 
or ^T[^. These and many other examples, especially the treatment of the medial 
consonants, prove that phonetically Pali occupies an intermediate position between 
Sanskrit and Prakrit. 
See Dr. Mason’s Pali Grammar, p. 105 and p. 61. 37. 
# It should be observed also, that the Prakrit foiun stands for an original 
form (i, e., base ^ -}- affix ^). This is proved by the Magadhi Prakrit form of ego 
or (cf. Pr. Prak. ix, 9.) In Magadhi,namely, the diphthong ^ often stands in 
the place of the final syllable ^ ; e. g., in Mrichchhakati: 
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