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V. 2. fqw^TBT is long form of fqipqiiy, ‘ the ground behind a house’, 
is more usually spelt 
2nd imperat plural of ‘ give’. The termination 3 ? for the 
2nd plural is rare in Bhojpuri ; but is the usual one in Magadhi. It 
also occurs in Maithili in the "termination ^f^r, which is simply with 
the redundant plural termination added thereto, 
is emphatic of TFBT, ‘ one only’, 
is contracted from fafaBBT, the redundant form of f^fa^T, 
which is the long form of f’qf 5 !', ‘ a letter’. 
Y. 3. ^fzj, see note on FIVES' in the 1st song. 
ofilxr is a common adjective used with 3iTJT5T, ‘paper’. It means 
literally, ‘ fresh, clean’, but the sffrJTST, has the special sense of ‘ not 
written upon’. qrjr5RT is the long form of qrTJT5T. 
B'STal^T is an unusual form. A more usual form would be BfB^TBT. 
Y. 4. has a common oblique form ^E|^yr (cf. Song xii, 4). 
«i *TT as already pointed out is oblique, in the sense of the locative. 
Y. 5. is oblique form of WY ‘ an edge’, just as is of 
An older form of is ^Tfy or ^Tf%, which still survives in Maithili ; 
cf. the Mth. noted above. 
is the precative imperative. 
is oblique of and bbt of BTy, ‘a place’. The regular 
oblique of Bps; would be BfyqjT, but the first syllable is shortened, owing to 
its falling in the antepenult, and a euphonic B is inserted. Hence we get 
B^^jf or B^jT. fq'B BBT means ‘ in the middle place’. 
qy^t, this is qiyB, ‘twelve’, with emphatic added. The of 
the first syllable is shortened as it falls in the antepenultimate. 
Y. 6. Cf. Vidyapati 79, 9. is a precative form, 
emphatic for bbt, ‘my’. 
V. 7. afy, is almost certainly incorrect for rilfy, the gen. fem. of 
Tf;, ‘though’. 
fqy^] is instrumental of fqy?. 
V. 8. rft^yr, is the oblique genitive of <£, ‘ thou’. The direct 
genitive is ifr^y, which, when agreeing with a noun in an oblique case 
(like ^), takes the obi. form rfbqTT. 
fq^NrTand 53 TB qjf are the regular Bhojpuri 1 sing. pres. ind. 
Y. 9. faqr is altered from B^BT for the sake of metre. 
l£T?Fy^T is long form of y^q^Y ‘ midday’. The word is feminine, 
and hence takes the long form ^q^fy^T, instead of ^q^y^T. 
<TTf% is the general oblique form of #, ‘ that’, used as an adjective 
agreeing with f«pq. fqB is for the locative of both syllables 
being shortened for metre. 
