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termination of the oblique form , viz. in and in ^; e. g., to a good bog 
is or ^rT3T% ^TT (See Manual § 75, 3. p. 39.) It will be sufficient 
here, merely to illustrate the theory by a few examples. Sanskrit : 
has the genitive ; Prakrit or or ; in 
Gaurian the latter form is either contracted by Sandhi into ijT^TT (originally 
irnSTHr), which is the oblique form in Gujarati, Naipall, Marvvari; or by 
inserting ^it becomes ijn^T( originally iirsnsjr^) or, as spelled in Marathi (on 
account of the quiescence of the medial (originally ifrsriTrr) ; and 
this, finally, contracts into iff#, the oblique form of the word in Hindi. 
Again Sanskrit or amplified : traveller is in Prakrit 
efTZ^K%, and in Gaurian contracted The genitive of the Prakrit 
base is or or The last form contracts 
by sandhi to (originally ^TT^iXPr), which is the present Marathi 
oblique form of the word. Again, San ski a rT» or amplified ♦’ done 
is in Prakrit or or ^^1%; in Gaurian (with inserted 
euphonic ^) 1%5l (Braj Bhasha), f^T (Marvvari), fbrsTT (High Hindi), 
(Marathi). The genitive of the Prakrit base is or or) 
or ; in Gaurian either 1., the euphonic is inserted, thus 
(originally or (originally'^^'^T^') ; the latter is the 
present Marathi oblique form (with the peculiar Marathi spelling) ,* 
the former contracts the termination to thus which is the present 
Hindi oblique form (generally with the euphonic ^ ) f%q ; or 2., Gaurian 
makes sandhi of the Prakrit form ; thus f%^T (originally far^T^), 
which is the present Marwari oblique form (with euphonic ^) fbfTMT- 
It is peculiar to Panjabi, that it possesses a number of masc. nouns of 
the category, now under consideration, which end in ^T, instead of ^T, as 
in all other Gaurian dialects. Similarly, the oblique forms of these Panjabi 
nouns end in if instead of the termination common to all the Gaurian 
languages ; e. g., shopkeeper is in Panjabi while in Hindi it is ^Tf^T^T 
or ^fsTUT.* The oblique form in Panjabi is in Hindi ^Tf*rij. The 
Panjabi shows this final anunasika occasionally also, in other kinds of 
nouns, both masc. and fern. ; e. g., ixi"n 3 or Smother, cow , crow. 
This anunasika is, no doubt, identical in nature with the anunasika which 
we have seen is found in the termination of the oblique form of Gujarati 
neuter nouns in It may either be a mere provincialism and inorganic 
addition, or, as suggested in a note appended to Essay IV, it may be a sort of 
compensation for the elision of a consonant ; e. g., in for the elision of 
contained in the original ; in ttt^ or either for the consonant 
* In Marathi the difference is this : the Hindi and Panjabi are derived from 
the Skr. ^TpJT^^T:, Prak. sJlf; contracted to crr^'t^T or ; hut the Mara¬ 
thi form is derived from the Skr. cjlf^^Th Pr. contracted into ; see below 
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