106 A. F. Rudolf Hoernle— Essays on the Gaurian Languages. 
but would be naturally amplified to and this might very well 
be modified to which would yield a Prakrit form or contracted 
It should be noted, that all the words referred to here, are such in 
which the forms in and are confined to the Prakrit, while in 
Sanskrit they occur only in the form in But there is a not inconsider¬ 
able number of Sanskrit nouns in (i . e. -J- affix which have, in 
Sanskrit itself ’ alternative and equivalent forms in and Now 
considering that most of these forms in and occur only rarely and 
in late Sanskrit works, I think we are justified in concluding that, a., they 
are merely phonetic modifications of the original form in (i. e., not formed 
by a separate and original Skr. affix ^efr or \ssff, which is the common opinion) ; 
b., that originally they were peculiar to Prakrit, having originated by Prakrit 
phonetic law ; and c., that they have been retransferred from Prakrit into 
Sanskrit (a theory regarding the relation of Prakrit and Sanskrit which admits 
perhaps of wider application, than is generally thought). If this view be 
correct, the number of those cases where a Skr. base in has undergone in 
Prakrit a modification into TW or will be very much enlarged. As to 
the prevalence of the addition of the affix (resp. in Prakrit, see the 
testimony of Dr. J. Muir in Sanskrit Texts Yol. II, p. 122, and Dr. Weber 
in Fragment der Bhagavati, I. ster Theil, pp. 437, 438. 
Note 6.—The Gaurian verb, trtefT drink, must be derived from the 
reduplicated root (for xfy), which, probably, was much more extensively 
employed in colloquial Prakrit than either in Skr. or literary Prak. The 
Prak. Gerund of would be or or (with elision of 
or with insertion of euphonic ^ (espec. mentioned by ITema Chandra 
I, 180, Subha Chandra III, 5), or (broadened) This 
latter form would be contracted in Gaurian regularly to (old G.), tffi?" 
M., tfttf B., H. 
Note. —I withdraw, for the present, the remarks on the Skr. Past 
Part. Act. affix ^rRi»r on page 67. 
