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>2/ v2/ 
WIW, 
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C\ 
, 
* * 
* # 
^T*TT^T, 
'N 
^ v2/ _vl< \*/ \2» vi; 
* , , q^, W, W\, 
# 7^^- # Those marked with two asterisks have optionally 
V-f V W 
ff. * 1*K- 
an obi. form in ^t, and those marked with one asterisk an obi. form in qr. 
This latter fact is explained by the circumstance, that, as has been already 
noticed, the deterioration of the termination (or to (or ^) 
took place, as it were, on the confines of the Prakrit and Gaurian, and that, 
therefore, the neuter nouns which exhibit this deterioration, are sometimes 
treated as Prdkritic , sometimes as Proper Gaurian. As regards the two 
other classes; that which has the oblique form in ^7 (i. e., 1st class), 
contains all the neuter nouns in the only exceptions being- those already 
mentioned as proper Gaurian , and the following nine nouns boil, W 
yoke, fTT^ ship, haft, ^ scar, iron ring, qivf sauce, qff^ branch of a 
<K 
river , boil, which form together with those marked with two asterisks in 
Ov 
the list of proper Gaurian neuters (hence altogether 13) the 2nd class, i. e., 
that which has an oblique form in MT. The paucity of the nouns of this 
class cannot surprise, if we consider, that the deterioration of the termination 
into can only have taken place quite exceptionally. 
Next, we come to the Gujarati and Naipali neuter nouns in Gf, and the 
Marwari neuter nouns in qjf. They all have an oblique form in ^T, and 
are evidently, as regards the formation both of the direct and oblique form, 
identical with the first class of the Marathi neuter nouns in Ni E. g., gold 
in Naipaliis in Sanskrit it is in Prakrit or or 
The last form becomes in Gaurian %T^f, and this changes to 
and this to^JT*f\ which last is the present Gujarati direct form of the word. 
Now the genitive of the Prakrit is or or 
The last of these forms changes in Gaurian to bT*rq?T and this to MRT, 
which last form, with the addition, apparently, of a final nasal ^RT (the 
meaning of which will he explained afterwards), is the present Gujarati 
oblique form of the word. As another representative example, we may take 
the Gujarati infinitive ePR* to do, to which the Marwari infinitive qrcbf 
corresponds. The derivation of these infinitives has already been explain¬ 
ed. They are formed from the Sanskrit participle future passive in qqj. 
The Sanskrit is in early Prakrit this is («tfftcT«j or) qfixNcfi, in later 
Prakrit or qrrsq or amplified the last of these qiTRG changes 
in Gaurian to which is the present Marwari direct form of the word, 
* To this class of neuter nouns belong all Marathi diminutives, which are neuter 
• ^ y 
nouns m ts. or ^ . 
f This amplified form admits a two-fold explanation. Either it may bo 
formed from the form qfToq by the usual addition of the affix qr (being originally 
^^•sqG) 5 or > which is perhaps more probable, the affix qR may have become in 
