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APPENDIX area and 37€5T. An initial a is also optionally changed to in 197.
263-265. These three rules speak of the declensional peculiarities of the dialect. Words ending in 1 in Sanskrit optionally get आ in Voc. sing. as also अनुस्वार; t. g., कञ्चुइआ for 8571, LIESTI for GIEI; T for 1977, lakini for falta वर्मन्. Of these instances कञ्चुइआ and सुहिआ may be explained as vocative forms of words ending in I with the addition of a # termination, while in the other instances the final a is changed into BFTIT; the same may be said of 1797 ( present participle ) and Hat, but in these cases .' the Stageait is found in Nom. sing. also.
266, f is optionally changed to sy, the other alternative being ज as in माहाराष्ट्री.
267. The change of a to a forms one of the characteritios of the dialect.
271. In the nice dialect Fear of the Absolutive is changed to इय or दूण; thus we have भविय and भोंदूण from भू. TTT, niequ from 98, as also the usual forms #AII, ni etc.
272. Roots * and TĄ have #get and Tger as additional forms of the Absolutive.
273-275. These three rules speak of the conjugational peculiarities of the pricaali dialect. Of these the first two refer to the 3rd per. sing. termination at and a which are changed to f@ anda. The third rule lays down that the Future tense in शौरसेनी will show स्सि and not हि, स्स or ह of HIEITIET. Thus we have waitaie, efter etc.
276. आदो and आदु are Ablative sing. terminations for the base ending in 37.
277-285. These Sūtras give the indeclinables and particles peculiar to शौरसेनी.
286. This Sūtra means that the base of authat is H167Tigt or the principal Prakrit, and only deviatins from it
