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Bhojpuri. 
(rare) not used. 
tW ^T. 
Examples , 
Direct, ^3i 3ir^rT, ‘lie does speaking,’ ‘ he speaks frequently.’ 
Oblique , xTWrT^^Tf ^TT %T^IT, ‘ what comes from regretting where 
’TWrr^T is the oblique form of xne<TT3^T. ( Fable 15). 
Maithili-Bhojpuri. 
(rare) not used. 
Examples , 
Direct, ^ ‘ he speaks frequently.’ 
Oblique , TTWt^T $ ^ ^ WSTT ‘ what can come of regretting ?’ 
where ^«tWt is oblique form of xf^rTT^. 
Northern Maithili. 
Examples, 
Direct, 3TTTR ^f*r, ‘hearing her cries,’ (Sal. 5). 
Oblique, *rH? ‘it is not proper to regret,’ ( Fable 15), 
where is the genitive of tr^crTTjsr, (for ir^frp-^T^). 
Occasionally the oblique form in this dialect ends in ; e • 
f^iW ‘ she began to say something,’ Man. 1, 12. 
vj sJ 
Direct, ‘lie speaks frequently.’ (Grammar). 
Oblique, ^ *rf^ ^cT, ‘from fussing nothing will 
come to pass.’ (Fable 14). 
The verbal noun in has had an influence even on foreign words. 
Thus the Arabic word «f^T, has an oblique form ^^fT, as in the sentence, 
ef^r, ‘ in exchange for this benefit,’ (Fable 15). 
Southern Maithili. Furniya Maithili. 
Same as Northern Maithili. 
Bhagulpuri-Maithili has the oblique form of but authori¬ 
tative examples are wanting. It has for the oblique form of 
or according to locality. 
In Maithil-Mdgadht the verbal noun in ^ appears to have dropped 
out of use. The verbal noun in follows Northern Maithili. 
Finally, Magadhi agrees with Maithili. 
