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It is contracted to VT, in TTW W ^JT II 
Hearing the news the king was perturbed in spirit. I. 172. 4. 
*tr h 
Laughter was in her mind, then pity came. III. 10 . 1 . 
Feminine as in ordinary mediaeval Hindi, as 
*5^ sfPlT ^?f *TT It 
Vj 
How the former story was. III. 15. 2. 
Plural masc. as %jt sm;^r ^rTTtr II 
The folk were harassed, wounded, and distressed. XXI. 5. 5. 
Of vx ’, the fern, ph, I have no examples. In cf^ *TtD“ il 
quoted above, it may perhaps be that a fern. pi. is meant and the anuswara 
has been omitted by the copyist. 
The second form is and ^T, plural of which I have already 
given instances. It is from this form (Skr. M <r) that I derive "SJT, and not 
from f^[rr. The u of ^r {T goes out in Gujarati ^T, ^?ft, etc., in which 
language the form the legitimate descendant off337<T> stands in its proper 
place as the preterite of a verb from parallel to which is Oriya f^^TT, 
preterite of f«PJT, side by side with from (^). From the form 
by elision of <r and coalition of the vowels (perhaps through a transitional 
form 'fjr), comes the ordinary Brijbliasha form ^T, Tf, etc., and by another 
process the form ^ripT became ip, i. e. tho , for li'to. The Hindi appears not 
to have retained any relics of the verb ^T, as a verb, though it has numerous 
nominal derivatives of it. 
Chand has yet another form of the preterite 3 ^ with short final a, not 
very uncommon in occurrence, as 
^ *?TfiT H 
^ ^ ^r^pr n 
Grieve not, but heed my spell 
Puling has (ever) been the business of the doughty Chauhan. 
III. 27. 26. 
Connected with which is the conjunctive participle in 
?PT JPIT ll 
The marriage having taken place, the bridegroom went to the 
forest. I. 170. 11 . 
The present tense contains no peculiarities. ‘ I am’ has been quoted, 
but I may mention that I have not yet come across the modern ^ “ is.” It 
seems to come from which is first split up into then the <T is 
dropped leaving from which by change of into VT and interpolating 
a second we get Tulsi Das and Kabir’s form whence the transition 
is easy to i. e., It does not appear quite certain that all this process 
had been as yet gone through in Chand’s time, the cases where ^ occurs are 
