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Amrita
In the verbal system there is really a single conjugation and the difference between the present and future, primitive and causal or active and passive is indicated by a difference in the stem : karahi, karesahi, karāvahi, karijjai. Among the participles the potential passive has already become a verbal noun and the gerund and the infinitive of purpose have merged together. The syntax is greatly simplified and postpositions begin to appear in conjunction with the remnants of the case forms. The so-called Deśī words occur with greater frequency and the absence of a conjunction like ya is peculiar. The sentence-types are scarcely different from those in use in the early stages of the NIA languages.
ODD
The Apabhramsa Language
Seminar in Prakrit Studies, Pune 1969
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