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the New Indo-Aryan vernaculars.
SOME SYNTACTICAL REMARKS Supply of the ending from the adjacent word in accord. At certain places the prior of the two adjacent words either the substantive or the attribute-appears without the requisite case-ending which is to be supplied to it from the immediately succeeding word. There are some four such cases :
पहिय पवहंतयह 54b= पहियह पव० भयभेसिय अइरावइ...खिवंतियइ 140b= भयभेसियइ अइरावइइ...खिवं० तरंगिणि जंतिहिं 161b = तरंगिणिहिं जंतिहि Pk. कयहरिस बरहिणीहिं 123a = कयहरिसहिं बर० मयणअग्गि विरहिणि (i. e. ण) 222b = मयणअग्गिण विरहिण
___NOTABLE CASE USAGES. Genitive has developed a very wide scope.
(a) Genitive absolute. Besides the usual type seen in जसु पवसंत (= पवसंतह), ण पवसिया 70a; मुद्धहे विलवंतियहे 25d, there is a series of cases wherein the genitive of the present participle is employed in an absolute phrase to signify continuity of an action while another action is performed. The construction can be rendered into English by 'while.......-ing'. Thus
तुह सुवरंत ( = सुवरंतह), समाहिमोहु विसमुट्ठियउ 86a, “While cherishing your memory......"
__ गेउ गिरंत ( = गिरंतह) पाइउ पढंतह, इम विलवंत दिण पाइउ 157ab “While singing songs and reciting the Prakrit (Gāthās), (1) who was thus bewailing, reached the (final) day (of the rainy season)"
(पिय) सुवरंत (= सुमरंतह).....इम जग्गंतह...असु तग्गंतह, जामिणि गमियइ 158 “The night is passed keeping awake, cherishing the memory of the loved-one and carrying on to live somehow”.
दक्खिणमग्गु णियंतह, मह अइत्थिरिसिउ दिनु 159ab “While watching the road in the south, I saw the sage Agasti (Canopus)".
एम सुन्नहियय भमंतह, रयणि विहाणिय 199c. “While wandering thus
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