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(g) The ordinary Panjabi plural inflection of fem. nouns ending in 
a in the oblique cases is ia n : for those ending in u it is waft, and for all 
others it is aft. In the songs the fem. plu. forms are usually regular, even 
when the inflectional postpos. are dropped. See 5, 20, 23, 4L. Here is an 
exception, 
ratift bariyaft, (the) nights (are) long 5. 
But like graheft above, this should probably be referred to the nasaliz¬ 
ed declension. 
(h) The usual rule of declension appears to be in Hindi and the 
allied tongues that anuswdra is preserved in the singular inflected forms 
only when it is present in the nominative. In the Kangra Hills, however, 
there appears to be a regular form of nasalized declension. We have seen 
signs already of it in ghore/i khadha = ghore ne khaya, masc. and in 
ghoriaft khadha = ghori ne khaya, fern.; also in deft = Panj. de, of : and 
in rat in, nights, fem. and grab eft, mouthfuls, masc. 
All the instances of masc. nasalized inflection are in eft, perhaps a 
form connected with the infl. in e, above noted and it is to be noted that 
in nearly every case of it the agent with ne or the inflectional postpos. has 
been omitted. 
bahi-ja pin]’reft, sit in the cage, 15. 
jayaft tuft panieft, go thou for water, 23. 
tere muftheft dikhi-kari, seeing thy face, 26. 
chacharueft ditta tak, the tick gave a bite, 38. 
bageft gajar muli, carrots and radishes of the garden, 39. 
Rameft dari, Rama’s wife, 39. 
peteft tumb hoi, there has been a pain in (her) stomach, 40. 
bharo thand’reft panieft ! fill with cold water ! 44. 
muleft liya, ordinary Hill expression for mol lia, = Panj. mul lia, 
(I) bought, 46. 
kotheft charlii, climbing on to the roof (kotha = bala khana), 46. 
soh’reft pak’ri daftg jetheft muftg’ri, father-in-law seized a stick, 
brother-in-law a mallet, 47. 
chalya mundheft sab’j kuman, walked with a green bow on (his) 
shoulder, 48. 
Gaddieft anda air, the flock of the shepherd came, or (?) the 
shepherd brought his flock, 56. 
Anjaniyaft deft meleft, at Anjana’s fair, 59. 
khinnueft di, of the ball, 60. 
Bhauneft diyaft, of Bhaun (Kangra), 60. 
hatheft sothi, a stick in (your) hand, 60. 
* [The so-called nasalized inflection in ew, as well as the inflection in e, are simply 
relics of ancient case-terminations : so also the ablative inflection oft (p. 157) ; see 
Hoernle’s Gaudian Grammar, pp. 230, 212, also p. 208, et passim. Ed.] 
