Grammar Of Apabhramsa

Author(s): Madhusudan Mishra
Publisher: Vidyanidhi Prakashan

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Conjugation
1. ho-sa-ũ होसउँ
(a) In some cases the connecting vowel is -e- sah-sa-i (he will tolerate), etc.
(b) But there was also a stage at which great confusion arose due to merging of infix and ending in various ways. Thus ho-hi-i was contracted to ho-i, gam-i-hi-i to gamihi, and so on. This contraction is abundant in Awadhi: karihi, dharihi, etc.
(c) As we come towards the end of Apbh, we meet with very peculiar forms which neither belong to the current Apbh nor represent the development of some earlier forms, but they are just poets' creations on some obscure models; e.g. pāv-i-su (I shall get), kar-i-su (I shall do), (I shall enter), etc.
y pais-1-su
sg.
3. kara-u
करउ
ho sa hũ होस हुँ
2. kara-hi
arfe
79. Though even the Prakrit modal forms appear in Apbh, the typical Apbh forms, if made from kar (do), may be :
1.
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The Modal Forms
kara-ũ
करउँ
pl.
kara-hu
करहुँ
kara-ha
करह
kara-hi
कहि
The 2 sg. has also some additional forms: af kar-i, ne kar-u, kar-e.
was
80. Later there was a little change in 3sg., which replaced by -e. In 2 sg. even the bare stem began to be used. A little later phase of the language is represented thus: