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and quite as likely to use one as the other. As far as I have gone, I have met 
very few instances of the use of the post-position and several of those 
seem doubtful. 
One example is 
SfVRraT if || 
1%!% ii 
Si. 
In his youth to Prithiraj 
In a dream at night (came) a sign : 
Having taken Juginipur (Delhi) 
He put the tilaJc (of sovereignty) on his brow. III. 3. 1-4. 
Here it is clearly a dative. 
With regard to the irregular verbs, or to speak more correctly, those 
which still retain traces of the older synthetical organization, the array of 
forms is rather varied. Some few well-worked verbs differ from their fellows 
in this respect that, whereas the latter have taken from the Sanskr. or Prakr. 
only the root, or some one form on which they have built up their modem 
verb with all its varied tenses, these verbs of the older creation adhere more 
closely to the Prakrit and take their preterite from its preterite and some of 
their other forms from those of the corresponding tense in Prakrit. Thus 
X^TT makes its past tense fx^T, from fxifT, for X^f ; also xWt from anc ^ 
XttfT from fxirT? all three Prakr. forms. Of the three the commonest perhaps 
is Xt«TT; to which rhyme from XT*TT, and from %^TT. In one or 
two passages occurs a form which I have rendered “ filled,” supposing 
it to be from *jt«TT on the analogy of ^fycfT. In the cases of and %XT, 
Chand has also the preterites xlXT and f%^T, ^tqT, but notf%^T, the cause 
of which will be explained below. The three words XlcfT, 3Fl*TT, and **ft*TT arc 
often shorn of their last S 3 dlable especially at the end of a line, as 
cT^T *Tt*T II 
He performed there the ceremony of Icanalctuld . VIII. 5. 2. 
To which rhymes 
Xfe qrc X^ II 
Dividing, with his own hand gave. ib. 4. 
wq vt: xto ii 
Parimal gave the order for war. XXI. 5. 32. 
Xff *?ix n 
fxx stT’R wc q'c ^ ii 
Vj C\ 
Having gone ten /cos he made a halt, 
The villages, towns and cities between he plundered. 20S. 0-10. 
It is one of Chand’s favourite rhymes, and in all these cases the subject 
of verbs is a nom. masc. sing. Of the full forms, the following are examples : 
