Arddhmagdhi Grammar

Author(s): P L Vaidya
Publisher: Modern Book Depot

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A MANUAL OF
1... EN VASTAT TÌ THI Fei gass, just as dealers in precious stone 37......desirous of evading taxation, do not ask or go by the right route.' Here the subject 37 atforent in the plural is used with the verb gegs in the singular. (ii) Sometimes forms of nouns or adjectives, different in gender, are made to agree with one another ; strata TrumT, as many living beings'. Here Frafra in the neuter gender goes with our in the masculine genderi दोन्नि, तिणि and चत्तारि are forms of neuter gender, but they are used with words of the masculine or feminine gender; FIAT GTTAT, 'two persons'. (iii) Sometimes nouns in one case are made to agree with their adjective in another case : सइ अन्नेण मग्गेण (दशवैकालिक, V. I. 6) 'there being another passage available'. Here witor in the Instrumental case is made to agree with सइ (Sk. सति) in the Locative case. Examples of anacoluthon, i. e, a sudden change of construction from active voice to passive voice, are also noticed in Amg.: TRATTHÍOCHT OI, FATIT, TË geh gitè 'Is, O Citta, this person fit to be visited by me?' Here the potential passive participle THTHION is linked with and in the Nominative whereas it should have been as, i. e., in the Instrumental.
110. The relative pronoun agrees with its antecedent in number and gender. In metrical composition this rule is at times slackened as can be seen from tagerer et a Tarra a È ang ka st, II, 2, where Juta in the plural is made to agree with êt in the singular. *
111. The different cases of nouns in Amg. are used in the same way as in Sanskrit. There are however a few specialities of the language. The Genitive is the most general case in Amg. and as such can take the place of any oblique case as can be seen from the following illustrations :-ai THTISCOT TATOTTFETTOT HETTUI, where Genitive is used for the Instrumental; Time NES, where Genitive