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John Beames —Grammar of Chand Barddi. 
[No. 2, 
With regard to the modification of the base in nouns nothing noticeable 
is to he found, except that Chand occasionally uses the nom. or direct form 
of bases in d before the post-position, as 
€rr *rfsrn 
The king came into his tent. I. 193. 2. 
Where we should expect vgT; and again 
frrf% 3vt I iTT *TTT^ II 
At that time came somehow into the tent a snake. I. 213. 1. 
Instances of this practice may be found in Tulsi Das and later poets, 
and in the tika to the Bhaktamala, and it is universal in Bengali. 
There is a curious word in two or three forms, as usual with Chand’s 
words, about which there is some obscurity. It is or and must, it 
appears to me, he translated “ fromthough it looks at times like an 
imperfect of the verb %, in which case I take it to he one step in the process 
by which we get to "^T, which will be noticed under the verb. I give the 
examples I have noted. In the first, Bisal De is asking his minister about 
the shrine of Gfokaran which he wishes to visit. 
^ #?f || 
ii 
How far (is it) from Ajmer P 
In two days easily one arrives. I. 178, 47. 
Here, by the bye, is which I wanted a while ago. When Bisal gets 
to Gokaran he meets a Siddha who asks him where he comes from. 
W&T f3»f% MX T II 
3fT^r irT<T f%f% STT3T II 
XV ^ II 
^ I. 184. 
Saitli the Sidha/lww what city, 
What family, what name P 
Had you come here on pilgrimage, 
Or (have you) further on any business ? 
In the first line must be “ from,” but in the third line is pi. of 
^?TT, = ^JT. In the next passage the doubt is still greater, and the whole 
passage is a peculiarly crabbed one. 
TffT ^ II 
mx?v ^cf*r ^ it 
«TT^T WFX II 
ii I. 48. 1-4. 
Here begins the Hanuphal metre. 
In the Kali (Yu g) heroes (had with) heroes strife, 
