182 John Beanies— Grammar of Okand Barddi. [No. 2, 
The infinitive or verbal noun has two forms, the abstract in ana, and 
the functional in iba. Of the former one instance out of many is 
fw'ST II 
Having plotted to stop (or the stopping of) his virility 
I. 178. 1. 
[ cr^fTrPT = and with nominal inflexion, 
BfPIT cfTT II 
He made preparation for going, XX. 28. 4. 
*m\x ii («tjt = ^ Jf&) 
In joining battle a terrible warrior. XX. 81. 5. 
The functional form is of very common use, just as it is still in Ganwari 
Hindi, in Bengali, Oriya, and Gujrati. 
^Tl Tf II 
TTTf% II 
If any one made delay, 
Then he came to strike him. I. 198. 7. 
II 
Bising up, ran to fight. I. 254. 7. 
The construction is strange, bnt not unknown to modern colloquial 
Hindi in 
W1?X 3TTW II 
\S 
Through learning (it) from his mother Gauri 
Her son Anal learnt this. I. 258. 1-2. 
In modern Hindi, *TT «fT ^ «T. 
The imperative exhibits tlie ordinary forms ^X& sing, and ^XJ plural, as 
vrs ^ on35 ii 
Bard Jagnak, now go thou home. XX. 77. 1. 
Owing to the careless way in which i and u are mixed up, we have a 
form in f%—- 
frr^ ^ II 
Say a good word about them. I. 9. 12. 
In two quotations above we have seen conversely and ^r ^35 used 
as present indicatives, for ^T^fxT and ^Rf%. 
The present participle ends in at, as ^pT?r, ^<T, and in Gatha, as well 
as occasionally in other metres where a long syllable is wanted, in ant, as in 
TNJ, 3s^rj\ The feminine is in short i, as ^ffT, also of course i, as ^rft, 
^XWU etc. 
The conjunctive participle in i has already been mentioned, its original 
full form is in iijai, from the locative of the part. pret. of Skr. Thus from 
we get (See Trumpp, on Adi Granth., J. II. A. S., Yol. Y, p. 
