Grammar Of Apabhramsa

Author(s): Madhusudan Mishra
Publisher: Vidyanidhi Prakashan

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A Gram mar of Apabhramsa
Concord
124. The adjectives have to agree with their substantives in number, gender and case : Are HETTB=My husband. de HETZT ping=See my husband.
(a) When the subject and object are without endings, the agreement is made clear by the pronouns and verbs : 256T ET 13=Those are big houses. 93 fa ger=These are those horses.
(b) Sometimes the agreement is just to be guessed : 7 TOT गोवइ अप्पणा=Who conceals his own qualities. बालहे जाया विसम TUT=The girl has developed heavy breasts.
Pronouns
125. The varieties of pronouns are already on decline in Apbh. The distinction of geneders is almost totally lost, because a few existing distinct forms are colourless. The grammarians try to show the existence of even neuter forms, but their formulations are contradicted at many places.
(a) There is co-relation of jo - so (who -he): afsauto fa जो मिलइ सहि सोक्खहं सो ठाउ=Who meets even after hundred years, friend, he is the place of joy. This correlation is found in other cases also : 77 TOT as sequr TEEB af ff1573 =Who conceals his own qualities, I offer myself to him.
(b) There is a similar correlation of the pronominal adverbs : fafaqat ar73 75 fa fou at fa Ď SITUTE 3T50=Even if my lover is an offender, bring him today even then. Similarly, jivă - tivã (as - so), jahi - tahi (where - there), etc.
(c) The relative pronoun ju (that) acts as conjunction, often connecting two sentences : भल्ला हुआ जु महारा कन्तु मारिया (It was fine that my husband was kllled). In Hindi it has been replaced by the Persian ki. In Apbh it also acts as pure rela