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[No. 2, 
John Beames —Grammar of Chanel Barcldi. 
^Trf 3T5? II 
^fcT ^ II 
At morning time the hero to Brahmans 
Dividing with his own hand gave (gifts) VII. 5. 3-4. 
wTx TcT TO*T TO II 
Having made obeisance to all. VI. 38. 2. 
Another instance was quoted a while back under iiT. The u is leng¬ 
thened metri gratia in 
fspeftTTST ^ n ^ WT ST* II 
For the war with Prithiraj at Mahoba Parimal has summoned us, XXI. 
84. 6. 
The other forms are too common to need quotation. 
Under the head of ablative, come several post-positions. is the 
older form from which come the forms %f, *jff and ; thus—- 
TO TF W II 
Says the messenger to PrithirSj. XIII. 1G. 1. 
In Mod. Hindi, verbs of speaking take %; the original meaning of 
which is shown by its derivation from to be £ with,’ though in modem 
times often used in the sense of ‘ from for which latter the proper word is 
or ?f to be noticed presently. Instances of *jf occur frequently, one has 
been given above, another one of is ^ ^f?r TO - , ‘ says the wife to her 
husband,’ I. 7. 1., where precedes the noun; as it stands we should 
understand it to mean ‘ says the husband to the wife,’ there is, however, no 
doubt from the context that it is Chand’s wife who speaks to him, not he 
to her. The use of the particle before the noun, shews that it had not yet 
thoroughly sunk into a post-position, but is still used as a conjunction, as in 
Sanskrit. 
Tjfr with forms tpC, ^, and x? is used as in ordinary old Hindi. 
mostly with abnormal anuswarlf, is I take it from ^7, (just as ^ 
from or *t) a regular ablative termination in Prakrit, from the Sanskrit 
adverbial ablative in ?Fr, as irrffrT^, from a village, though it has become 
severed from the noun and is treated as a post-position. Instances are 
<TT ^ ^ II 
Prom his race sprung. I. 1G4. 1. 
TOr TO ^ ^ II 
Say ye, (and) I make him destroyed from life. I. 178. 21. 
(i. e., If you give the order, I will kill him.) 
For the locative, we find the many-formed post-position represented in 
modern times by In its earliest form it is fjfa, then dropping the e , 
^ II 
Immortal dwelling among mortal. I. 3. 8. 
