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Dr. Hoernle —An instalment of the Bower Manuscript. [No. 3, 
for mriyate, fl. 4a 7 and 4a- 9 sritani for sritani; fl. 3a 10 krimi for 
krimi. 
Prakriticisms : omission of a final consonant: fl. 36 s pushtyd for 
pushtydh (abl. sing.) ; fl. 36 7 samd for samat (abl sing.) ; or 
simplification of a double consonant: fl. 36 11 satalayos for sapta- 
layos. 
Use of the guttural nasal before s and h : fl. 16 9 and 2a 7 ansu for 
amsu. 
Next morphological irregularities : 
Peculiar inflexion: in declension: fl. 2 6 U nrind for nra; fl. 56 1 
sahiyam from a base sahiya for sahiyas. In conjugation : fl. 26 9 
pdyayita for pdyayeta * ; change of class : fl. 56 3 pratapyeb 
(IVtb, rare, ‘to warm one’s self’) for pratapet; atm. for 
parasm. : fl. 26 s srinushva (but fl. 3a 9 srinu), fl. 46 2 vinivart- 
tayeta for vinivarttayet. 
Change of gender: neut. for masc. : fl. 36 2 utsdham (but fl. 36 3 
utsdhah ), fl. 4a 3 amaraddru; masc. for neut. : fl. 36 11 limgas=cha , 
fl. 46 s dschyotano vidheyah (but fl. 46 2 aschydtanam) ; fern, for 
masc. : fl. 5a 8 rddhrdm (but fl. 5a l ° rodhram) ; fern, for neut. : 
fl. 5a 10 ay6 vighrishtdm f for vighrishtam. 
Next syntactical irregularities : 
Exchange of cases : acc. for nom.: fl. 5a 6 daham rujdtm sa-ddhdm 
sdmyanti for daha rujd sa-ddha ; nom. for acc. : fl. 5a 2 murvvd- 
pi go-mutra-yutam vadamti for murwarn-dpi ;J altogether the 
acc. and nom. cases are used very promiscuously, see under 
‘ abnormal concord.’ Instr. for nom. : fl. 26 u nrind upakal- 
payet for nd; nom. for loc., fl. 5a 5 vidrutas-cha vadana-pralcpe 
for vidrute cha; gen. for acc., fl. 16 9 mdlds=tat-parichdrakasya 
janasya drdpayet for parichdrakam janam ; gen. for dat. : fl. 2a 6 
bhujdm prayojyo for bhugbhyah ; and loc. for dat. : fl. 4a s rdja- 
dvislite na ddtavyo for rdjadvishtaya. 
Abnormal concord: incongruent cases: acc. and nom. : fl. 3a 1 
prasthdn deydh for prasthdh; for other examples, see above. 
Incongruent genders: masc. and neut. : fl. 3a 9 gunani prochya- 
mdnan (acc. pi.) for prochyamanani, fl. 46 2 esha sritas ... dschyd- 
tanam for etat sritam, 46 11 etdni misritd vd ; for other examples, 
see above under ‘ change of gender.’ 
Abnormal construction : many of the verses containing prescriptions 
# This, however, may be merely a case of slovenly writing of the vowel-mark, 
t This may be clue to the mere exigencies of the metre which here requires a 
long syllable. 
X This, however, of course, would not have suited the metre. 
