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1884. J G. A,. GriGrson Tro'iislntiou to l\Ictnhodli s HciTibct^is^ 
tlius lie became the worry of her life. How often did she snatch fire ont of 
his hand! and how often did he bnrni (his fingers), when she was not look¬ 
ing 12 At length she said to him, “ yon must learn from me.^ If yon break 
yonr legs^ I shall have no one left to me”. Saying this she tied him np 
to a (heavy) mortar, and added, ‘‘My son, if yon run away now, yon 
won t be able to go fast.”^ Then, feeling quite safe abont him (she 
went away), and Hari seized his opportnnity, and, taking the mortar in 
his arms rolled it away;® (10) Rolling^ and bonncing^ it goes, to where 
the two hnge trees^ were. The Lord of the lotns dexteronsly tore np the 
two Arjnnas'^® without tonching them with his hand. The great trees 
^ ‘ cooked liimself.' 
2 Lit. ‘ without looking.’ is for ‘ without/ is the oblique 
form of verbal noun of a/ ‘ look.’"* 
^ is old Mth. for is oblique of 
is the Ap. Pr. possessive pronoun (H. C. lY, 434). The termination may be 
the Ap. Pr. locative termination but this is unlikely. It is probably a weakened 
form of the Ap. Pr. termination of the Genitive of fern, nouns, %(H. Ch. lY 350, Kra- 
madiswara, 35). It will be observed thathere is feminine. Compare Bid. LI, 
6, where there is a similar fern. obi. form or, with the genitive affix, 
The masculine form of would be which occurs in the old Hindi of 
Chand (28, 62). Xf?;;^ ^ herdsman tends the cows of 
another’ (Hoernle, Gd. Gr., p. 206) ; this, as Hoernle clearly shows, is derived 
from the Ap. masculine genitive or It is of course unnecessary to do 
more than point out here the now established fact, that the Bihari oblique form is the 
direct descendant of the Prakrit genitive; postpositions.like cTlf^ (Skr. rff^^ (?) 
Hoernle, Gd. Gr., p. 226), or ^ (Pr. being merely verbal nouns governing 
the genitive. 
in the text is a misprint for ^f^T. 
^ Lit. ‘ (I will see) then (how) you run away crawling ’ Xfyi^, for 
‘ you may run away,’ being 2. plur. pres, conjunctive. x/fxic occurs also 
in Skr. (fc^frf) to crawl (like a child).’ In modern Maithili it is more usual in the 
form . There is also in the Magadhi dialect of Bihari, a word ‘ a boy.’ 
6 = ‘ roll away.’ Not in Bate. 
7 V = ‘roll.’ Not in Bate. 
v» • 
8 = ‘bounce.’ Not in Bate. 
^ Skr , Prakrit lit. having a vast body’. In Mth. it is 
used to mean ‘huge,’ ‘vast,’ ‘dense.’ E. g. ^^X;^ ‘ a dense forest.’ 
The two Arjuna trees (terminalia alata glabra), were two sons of Kuvera, 
who were cursed by Narada to assume the forms of trees until liberated by Krishna. 
Krishna dexterously uprooted them by hitching the mortar across the two, and 
giving it a sudden jerk. They then assumed their proper forms. 
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