200 G. A. Grierson —The Sonrj of Munile Chandra. [No. 3, 
WTcT tp^TG g^ I 
ffPT gipT 5T5^T gifsrai II 'SRI 
VTftg ^fjIRT grpT WTf^f I 
cngfiT "flit "snftrej RfTfT V5RT || SR< 
SP3g VT*T -513 f^T RTP?R I 
Pp: Pig gspi gpg i 
ftp: VC3 fR% ^TSiTC RgRg II s=;S 
Trg g^g 5f5T f^rr gug gtfg’st | 
rrf gprff gf% | 
gtp ure ^ jug irg ira ^ucsr ii ■sr'= 
5jt?( gnr^rr ?pj gg i 
fn<¥rg grnftg 5i% *Rfg«r ^nvgg n -agt 
qsNft ilf gfiprr grsng ggt% Pew i 
gi'siigg 'writ g^igg ^f% n ■•o^® 
gisrrg tri3 wncm ugp; gifggr I 
SI ♦ 
v^gur rw nrfsr^i i 
-J ♦ ♦ 
mz wpg ^nrg gips^x n <a^\ 
grsn Pr vigrs nfsgrg ^tipra i 
gg Ppjt afggr rraTtR ^n^cr wst* 3 [ u 
^ITSf Rigger RTCR ws^tt IpR i 
grgrg greg gggig gfgg i 
gg Ptrt gfg gigra meg ggigg n ^3 
gf? gf? iRiggr gifagig grPra 1 
tj ^ c { 'f^r ii ^8 
gfg 11 
I am sorry to say that the above text was copied out by an energetic bdbu who 
had the greatest contempt for the dialect it illustrates. He showed his contempt by 
carefully correcting the text, wherever it differed much from his idea of the sddhu 
Uidshd. I did not discover this until the first two hundred and fifty verses had been 
printed off 5 so, thus far, the above must he taken cunt grctoio suits. The principal 
improvements will he noted in the terminations of the genitive and locative. I may 
point out here, that Eangpuri possesses an instrumental ending in ^ which may 
easily he confused with the Bangali locative. Thus in Eangpuri means “ with a 
hand , while in Bangali it means u in a hand,” of which the Eangpuri would he 
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