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APPENDIX
PRESENT PARTICIPLES ____181-182. शतृ and शानच are the terminations of the Present participle in Sk.; they become and for in Prakrit. For the feminine form, we add , and hoff (also ATT ); e. g., a, , Ehaf.
SYNOPSIS OF THE THIRD PADA 1- 57. Declension of Nouns and Adjectives: 584124. Declension of Pronouns. 125-130. Miscellaneous rules about Declension. 131–137. Syntax. 138—182. Conjugation.
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The fourth Pāda treats, from Sūtra 1 to 259, of the various so-called substitutes for Sanskrit roots in Prakrit. This section of calcets is not arranged on any systematic plan, but gives roots and their substitutes at random.Some of these substitutes are pure dan roots while others can be traced to Sk. by applying rules in I and II. Sir George Grierson, in his monograph on the “Prakrit Dhātvādeśas" ( Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. VIII: No. 2, 1924 ) says that Prakrit roots may be looked upon as falling into four classes, viz, :--"(1) Those which are identical with the corresponding Sankrit roots; such a root is a which is identical in both languages. (2) Those which are regularly derived, according to the ordinary phonetic rules, from the corresponding Sanskrit forms. Thus under the phonetic rule that Sanskrit medial 3 becomes Prakrits, the Sanskrit root is becomes is in Prakrit. Such a root cannot be called an BIT, substitute, as there is no substitution, but only development. (3) Those which cannot be connected with
