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«J5fPC vr% ‘ a blind dog barks at the wind,’ 
Prov. 
It is not necessary to give examples of other direct forms in T. 
■^TJl {or ‘ a pendulous front,’ Mth. Chr. Voc. 
S. V. ^ITJT. 
, S' 
TTTW lor qTW) ‘a heavy behind,’ ib. s. v. ■qrw. 
j v <\ o 'j 
I do not know of any authoritative example of but the word is com- 
mon colloquially. 
Oblique, ^JT^TT ‘ does any one keep a thorn tree 
in his*fcourtyard,’ Man. 2, 7. 
^TT 3f% ‘on her eyes she applied collyrium,’ 
Sal. 18. 
I do not know of any authoritative example of but it is commonly 
used in conversation to mean, ‘ at first’. 
An example of WT has been given above. 
‘ the end of the third,’ Vid. 60, 3. 
TW *J, ‘ from Salhes’s watch,’ Sal. 12. 
«T?Tf^f, ‘ I would have swept the road with 
my cloth,’ Gorakhpurisongs, No. 12. 
^rrsrf^f 1 what does a deaf 
man lose by sleeping, or a blind man by waking,’ 
Prov. 
fWTT TJ1TT ^ Tjfc^T *TT, ‘ on the forehead the frag- 
ments of red lead are beautiful,’ Gor. Sgs., Mo. 1. 
^JrT wr* ‘ they departed one behind the other,’ 
Sal. 17. 
f3%UPiT, ‘in the middle place, (write) the 
separation of twelve (months).’ Gor. Sgs. Mo. 3. 
Finally we come to the two verbal nouns in ^ and W, described in Mth. 
Gr. § 189. These two forms are current throughout all the dialects of 
Bihari, as will be seen later on, and in nearly all these dialects, they have 
an oblique form as follows: 
Bandras Bhojpuri. 
Direct. Oblique . 
* The text has but q^p would he more correct, There is a 
tendency in the theth holi to drop nasal sounds. 
