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terminal dissyllable Tri, to which nothing corresponding exists in Sanskrit, 
is owing to the addition of the Prakrit affix ^. 
Now by an exactly analogous process we may derive from the Magadhi 
Prakrit forms TRf and 7P§, first the intermediate Prakrit forms 7if%^ and 
; and next, the Marathi forms 71 and The identity of the 
process of their origin is guaranteed by the identity of their peculiar 
irregularities. 
But further, the neuter termination is not only found in those three 
past participles ir^f), but in all Marathi past participles. It follows 
therefore, that their formation must be analogous to that of the other three 
participles ; that is, that their termination pT cannot be derived from the 
Sanskrit or Prakrit termination rf, but from a Prakrit termination or 
frpii; in other words, from the base of the ordinary Prakrit past participles, 
increased by the peculiar Prakrit affix e. g., Mar. killed is not 
derived from Prakrit ?nfc?T or mric 3 ?, but from the amplified Prakrit form 
TTrfbfp^i = = TTlftif or TifrirPli = = 
But that is not all. The result of the present enquiry must plainly 
be put into the form of a much more general law ; viz., whenever a Prakrit 
(or Sanskrit) neuter noun, be it a participle or a substantive or an adjec¬ 
tive, has a terminable monosyllable % but shows the termination ^ in its 
stead in Marathi; this Marathi termination v cannot be derived from the 
Prakrit terminal monosyllable % but must be derived from a Prakrit 
terminal dissyllable or (for or obtained by adding the 
Prakrit affix to the Prakrit base in ^f. No other Prakrit affix can here 
come in consideration (for effecting that increase of the base) ; 1., because 
no other affix beside is added ivithout affecting the meaning; and 2., 
because, thouo-h in a few cases one or two other affixes are added without 
any meaning, (e. g., Skr. lightning is in Prak. fq^or ; Ski*, 
ifor yellow is in Prak. ifHor see Pr. Prak. IV, 26), such addition 
of these affixes is confined to these isolated cases, while the addition of 3f is 
most common and may be made to any noun (Pr. Prak. IV, 25) ; and 3., 
moreover in order to account for the Gaurian terminal forms €rf, etc., the 
elision of the consonant of the affix is necessary ; now «?[ can be elided, but 
is not elided. 
The results which have been set forth so far, might have been equally 
well arrived at by taking the case of a Hindi past participle. B. g., it is 
* It is noteworthy that in tho Gatha dialect (or vulgar Sanskrit) “nouns and 
participles are frequently lengthened by the addition of tho syllable qy as ■yT^rp^T, 
TT^HPrtiT, wwtwb ^TTlfcPfiT:, ( Muir > 
Sanskrit Texts, vol. II, p. 122). Mark, how often tho terminal syllable changes to 
