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Instr. t —qfTix qfw wfxx qn^lX* ‘ he binds his waist witli knife and 
dagger,’ Mars. 4, 1. 
This example is Musalmani-Maithili, and the words may 
be nom. plurals fern, borrowed from Urdu. I shall 
hence give other examples. 
aftfx 5 RTJ 1 ?vtxif ^T^fx, a fair woman is blinded by pride. 
Prov. 
w 3TTTJ, ‘ like a cow (distracted) by the 
losing of her calf,’ Man. 3, 17. 
To this must he added the very common colloquial forms 
ij ‘ by this,’ gjq ‘ by which,’ ‘ by that’ which occur 
in literature only in company with prepositions ; and 
the illative conjunction or ‘ therefore.’ Examples 
of the first are, 
q qfx xrera» ^T, ‘ in this way was the circle of the 
rds.' Man. 6, 5. 
^qfx q'XX ^f<T 5i^r, ‘in what way the guards had gone 
to sleep.’ Ib., 17. 
The following are colloquial examples, not made to order, 
q, qri} x ‘for this reason (by this), it happened by 
conversation.’ 
srrxT^r ?rft ‘ I cannot 
hear the Kuran by the ears, with which I have heard 
the S'rimad bhdgavat.' 
sgqx if % X^TX, ‘ he saw you pleased, 
therefore he came.’ 
^qXT ^ xqq ^rfx if TX¥, ‘ there was noj'unity 
amongst themselves, thence fell the adversity.’ 
qrzfqrif sfiJTfT W, ‘by discussions a quarrel arose.’ 
Compare the following example of the instr. of qffr 
‘ what ?’ 
^^XT ’XTX XXXwt, ‘ why do you make me out a 
thief ?’ 
Classical examples of the use of ?f or fr"are the following : 
if «rf% 3\xf9 JTXT#, ‘ therefore he does not eclipse it.’ Vid. 
14, 8. 
rj xfx ‘ therefore the lotus does not dry up.’ 
Vid. 14, 6. 
