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contraction of rrt to % (as in to ^ril).—4., while on the theory 
of the Prakrit terminal form R^ being the original of the Marathi terminal 
form if, the two objections to this theory (noticed above) can be reconciled; 
on the other hand, on the theory of the Prakrit termination being the 
original, the three objections to this theory are incapable of being 
surmounted. As regards, namely, those two objections, it may he said : 1, 
that the ending if of the Marathi gerunds in %"(or R ), though, no doubt, 
ultimately derived from a Prakrit termination or TR may well be 
proximately derived from a Prakrit termination RR. For it has been 
shown already that the Prakrit Part. Fut. Pass, affix RRtR may 
change to RfRR (or Rf<JjR ) or (or RR?j). # And this derivation 
Prak. (with, the amplificative affix r) or xyfigRRy; in the more vulgar and 
broad Prak. dialect it must have become XfigRRT, this changed to xyRURT anc *- fi ua 6 y 
to xreTRR[; i ]1 Gaurian it was contracted to xygRyy or We may well 
suppose that the affix ^77 was also in Hindi sometimes broadened in Rff. Hence 
Skr. would become in Prak. Rf^RRT or RRRRf. The latter form would 
change to R^RRf or RRRy or RR1 or which last is the High Hindi form of 
the word. The former form would change to Rf%RRT or Rf^|R|- or RRjy or Ry^y 
which last is the Braj Bhasha form of the word. The extreme improbability of the Pra¬ 
krit termination ^r[ being contracted in Gaurian first to Rp next to r[ or Ry is 
illustrated by the word flferqf mouse, which becomes in Gaurian Ryyy or RRf. Here th 0 
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Gaurian termination Ry or Ry might be thought to be a contraction of the Sanskrit ter¬ 
mination or Prakrit ^Ry. But if we turn to Prakrit, we find the following 
sutra in Subha Chandra’s grammar, RqfRqfR^S]fRRf^i^HR^f?: 3 [ 7 R 7 R ( ir , 
corresponding to Hema Chandra I, 88 .) ; that is, the first ^ of the words mentioned 
in the sutra changes to R • hence the Skr. RfqR: becomes in Prakrit qjRRy , 
and this, now, changes in Gaurian to fl%7 or RRy. 
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* The insertion of a euphonic r which, as has been remarked in another place, 
has become one of the phonetic laws of Gaurian, is not altogether unknown to the later 
Prakrit. Thus Hema Chandra in his Prak. grammar gives the following sutra R^Ry 
1,180, in Subhacliandra the corresp. sutra is III? 5, and the commentary 
thereon RRyf^RT^STOcT q\T which 
means, that if a consonant which is preceded by R or Ry and is followed by r 
or Ry is elided, a euphonic r is inserted; some examples given are rrr (for -gyRR], 
fRrRRpy (for yft^RR.*), Rrr (for RRR), etc. This sutra limits the practice to a 
particular case. But in Gaurian there is no limitation; and there are not wanting 
evidences that even in later Prakrit the limitation was not strictly observed. Thus 
Hemachandra himself in his commentary to sutra I, 14, of his own grammar makes 
the following remark R^RyfRRyYT^YH^gH^^fH^lNjtkat is, by the rule of variety 
the semivowel r may be slightly pronounced, and he gives among others as an 
example RpRqy fer Skr. RpCrf. Also in the previously mentioned sutra he mentions 
as an exception fqR^ for Skr, fqqfR. In all MSS., in my possession, both of his 
grammar and that of Hema Chandra the euphonic r is generally inserted in the 
Prakrit examples; while in the MSS. of Yararuchi’s Prakrit Prakasha it is never 
met with. 
