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e. g., Skr: snfursr, nom. sing. Prak. ^Tfqr%; Gaur. (Mar.). 
Again, nom. sing. 3T^:, Prak or ; Gaur. 
It will have been seen from these examples that the Prak. nom. sino". 
in or ^3"% of the bases in and assume in Gaurian a double form ; 
viz. either a form in ^ and or one in and . For here again, as 
everywhere, the two Gaurian phonetic laws come into play ; viz. of obviating 
the Prakrit hiatus either through the insertion of the connecting semi¬ 
vowels ^ or or through the contraction of the two hiatus-vowels in sandhi. 
Those forms which are made by inserting the connecting semi-vowels or 
^, are very common in Gamw. and in the Low Hindi generally, where they 
may be formed as alternative forms of any noun in ^ or "3T, very often with¬ 
out any difference in meaning. The connecting semi-vowel ^ is used for 
nouns in and the connecting semi-vowel for nouns in E. g., gardener 
is in Ganwari both and Ri%srr,t i. e. the Prakrit is Tuf^riiT, in which 
the Gaurian inserts ^ between \ and %, and thus protects and preserves the 
Prakrit final % (or ^?l). Again, watchman is xr^^; or or or 
; i. e. the Prakrit is xf^T^T or and the Gaurian, by inser¬ 
ting c^and and Then again, the inserted semi-vowels 
■?J and qT protect the final Prakritic ^fT.+ So again brother is both v.T^ and 
Sometimes these nouns in^^T and \3"3rr (like the feminine nouns with 
the identical termination) imply, as distinguished from the nouns in ^ and 
* Rarely, also is inserted in the Prak. termination • e. g., 3T^*j in the opening¬ 
line of Chand’s Epic, ‘STRl' 31^7 Xf?q || 
f The antepenultimate is shortened according to a peculiar Ganwari law. 
X In poetry the final long j is often found shortened for metre’s sake ; e. g., in the 
following verse (kavitta) of Chand, 
^f«Tl HR I cr^Tl xn^ *Tf II 
i ^ 11 
rT^rJ Njxpfj I T3T ^T5TrT II 
srr^r w i 11 I, 7 y 
We have here etffasj for 3ffR*JT (Pr. ejrf?pgr, Skr. or (Pr- 
Skr - ^fw); ^TT^ for ( Pr - Skr. ^TS^Ti)i for 
The full form is also met with, when the metre admits, as in the following 
(fflTCt) of Akhtar — 
^ i y-srw xj jiarftqT n 
Xf3T ^Tff ^TrT Xf^T3T 3[*JT || 
^ XfT 3TT?TC 3T?T II 
^ xr^r^rf 3 tut i ^ ^ 11 
Here (Pr. see Pr. Pr. IV, 15) false has kept the final long to 
rhyme with the femin. 313ff^?R, 
