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[No. 2, 
John Beamcs —Grammar of Cliand Bar dal. 
f<TH it I. 279. 1. 
This land (was) my father’s and my ancestors’. 
3TT f%f% || 
II I. 147. 3, 4. 
"Who (am I), from what race sprung 
Tell thou to me, 0 mother. 
Instances of are as follows : 
^55 II I. 160. 2. 
You have no pity on me. 
(Lit. Of me any pity not comes.) 
W ^T<T ^ ^ II 
Seven brothers of mine are slain. Y. 61. 3. 
II (}■ e ‘ | <X*Cj.£- ) . 
This is my petition. I. 228. 2. 
For the nominative plural is universal; 
^ qmit ^rf% ii 
We (and) you had never strife, I. 210. 29. 
cj*j *frm s;f% ii 
We and you (have) business (on) this field to-day. Ib. 31. 
The oblique form is and the genitive ^KT ®Tt. 
^JT^T II 
Alha, hear my word. XXI. 145. 2. 
The nom. is used when we must translate by a genitive or other oblique 
case, as in "ffFrf feyw, the day of the death of me. I. 210. 27. It is a 
nom. as:ain in 
WX ^ ^ II 
Quoth Kanli, honorable (are) we all. VI. 82. 1. 
The post-positions are affixed as in the modern language ^rf, etc. 
For the second person the singular nom. 7^ has been quoted above, as 
also the plural nom. TjTf; the former has an emphatic form as in the hymn 
to Bhavani— 
?TIP 5ith<PN II 
STfT^TT II 
Thou art Ganga Godavari, Gomati, 
Thou, Narbada, Jamuna, Saraswati. LXV. 16. 
And so on through some forty lines. In the following, however, we 
have the oblique form : the only difference is the absence of the anunasika. 
The i is lengthened metri gratia ; 
^ ^}j?i ii *rp*r ii 
Before all affairs. Thy name is affixed. 
Hymn to Ganesha, I. 26. 26. 
