1888.] 
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G. A. Grierson —Essays on Bihari Declension. 
itself declined in the singular, taking the singular terminations. The only 
words which take a new base in the plural (both for the nominative, and 
oblique cases) are the words ^r*lf«T, and (see Mill. Gram. 
§ 25 for the two last) which form their instrumentals ^rtrft^y, 
and I am unable to give any examples from literature of the use 
of these three words. 
For further remarks concerning these plural forms in f«T, vide post. 
Derivation. 
At present I do not propose to consider the genitive terminations ^5, 
T, and % as they are only used in connection with pronouns, and can be 
more conveniently discussed under that head. 
The remaining terminations are 
Bamayan, f%, ff, 55, 55, if, 
Maithili, f%, ft, 55, 55, — % *?. 
Before proceeding further, I must warn against another set of termi¬ 
nations in use in these dialects, which are merely particles of emphasis, viz., 
ft?, ''ft or 'ft* 55 or 55, see Hoernle, G. G., § 550, and the Author’s 
Mth. Gram., § 205. These are entirely different in origin, but are liable 
to lead to confusion. 
The following table shows the declensional terminations in Apa- 
bhramsa Prakrit. H. C. means the fourth book of Hemachandra’s Gram¬ 
mar. K. I. means Kramadisvara quoted in Lassen, pp. 449 and ff. Md. 
means Markandeya quoted by Hoernle. 
