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ciation of tlie common Low Hindi termination %. For tlie Prakrit 
termination of which both and % are modifications, contracts, as any 
one can test himself, if quickly pronounced, to WT, and not immediately to 
and if it is necessary to consider either % or as a modification of the 
other, and not both as direct modifications of it appears to me the 
form must be considered as the more original of the two, as the immediate 
modification of the Prakrit and ^r, as a modification of ^T. , 
In some Gaurian nouns the Gaurian termination ^T, the contraction of 
the Prakrit termination is further reduced to the simple vowels; as 
in the pony, traveller, v?f rice, traveller, and others. This 
is apparent from the fact that in Marathi these nouns have an oblique 
form nouns in which is identical with the oblique form of masc. 
nouns in or in Gujarati, Naipali, Marwari, as will be shown below. 
It is also proved by the fact, that some of these masc. nouns in ^ are also 
used, in Marathi, as neuter nouns in as rff neuter or cf? masculine ; and 
it has been shown in Essay IV that the neuter nouns in ^ which have, in 
Marathi, an oblique form in ^T, are derived from a Prakrit original in 
( = ; hence it follows that their corresponding masculine forms must 
be derived from a Prakrit original in E. g., assuming that 
stands for an original Gaurian or and this for the Prakrit 
^T 3 ^TT%, what follows? The gen. of' would be or 
or ; the latter, according to Gaurian rule of sandhi, 
would contract to (originally which is actually the oblique 
form of ^T3^T^. Hence we may argue backwards that is a contrac¬ 
tion of Similarly, Prakrit (Sanskrit of VTf) a title of 
brahmans, has genitive or or ; contracted in Gaurian 
*T?T (originally *ifT^), which is the oblique form of vjf (see Dadoba’s Mar. 
Grammar, §. 223) ; it follows that Vff is a contraction ofvi]pgT. # There are 
a few other nouns of this class (viz. ending in gy, which is a contraction 
of the Prakrit termination ^f%), which have an oblique form in or 
This is to be explained thus : that instead of contracting the Prakrit 
genitive termination by sandhi, the euphonic semivowel ^ has been 
inserted. E. g., Sanskrit ♦* or amplified : brother-in-law; 
Prakrit Gaurian first ^rr%T or ^TTWT (Hindi), next (reduced) 
(Hindi) or (Mar.). The gen. of the Prak. is or or" 
; the latter becomes in Gaurian, by inserting euphonic \, ^rr^T 
(originally or^rrfT, which is actually the oblique form of the Marathi 
word ^rrs - , and thus proves the identification of with the Prakrit 
^TT^T^iT. Again, MTfF bridge (for original Gaurian or ^t^Tt) is a 
contraction of the Prakrit ii or ^'e^T, Skr. ; the gen. of the Prakr. 
# The Mar. VTf is a diminutive term of contempt ; just as the Skr. : 
