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JUNE, 1916) NOTES ON THE GRAMMAR OF THE OLD WESTERN RAJASTHANI 125
calau jaiyai “Come, let us go !” (P. 617)
Now, this employment of the impersonal passive to give the meaning of the 1st plural of the active, is particularly important inasmuch as it is therefrom that the hitherto unexplained Gujarati termination for the 1st plural present indicative (800 $ 117) has originated. Only contract apiyai into apie in the last-but-onu quotation above, and you will practically see how easily Gujarati could substitute the impersonal passive for the 1st plural of the present active. Probably, the chief reason that lead to the substitution is the necessity of establishing & visible distinction between the terminations of the let and 2nd persons plural, which in Old Western Rajasthani differ only in that the former is nasalized and the latter not, and which in Modern Gujarati, if they were both regularly contracted into -, could no more be distinguished from one another. It is out of the same reason, I think, that Marwari contracte -ai into - ($ 11 (6), 117), and Gujarati for the 1st person plural of the future employs the weak form - instead of the strong *o.
Examples of the Old Western Rajasthani impersonal passive, used in substitution for other persons than the 1st plural, are :
ramiyai dati divasa nai râti “ I indulge in game day and night" (P. 244)
siū kariyai keind jaiyai havai “What am I to do [and] where am I to go now”? (P. 590)
te dhürata-nai diyai dikha “To that rascal [he] gives the initiation " (P. 280)
dekhi sasaü dayai bahu gali “Having seen the hare, [the lion] reviles [him] much " (P. 407)
tedi da diyai chaï mana "Having summoned the camel, [they] honour [him] " (P. 479).
$ 188. Examples of the future passive are : 1 in ij: lájasi “It will be done" (Âdi 6.) jaijasi “Ibitur” (Ibid.) lijisyaž " It will be taken(Ibid.) 2 in 1 : kahisyai, kahisii "It will be said " (F 565, Çra.) bolisii "It will be told " (Daç. V, 100) vakhanisyaï " It will be described " (Fra) paràbhavisiu " You will be overcome" (Up. 18) pamisyal “They will be obtained " (gast 96).
In the two examples following the 3rd singular form is used in the impersonal construction, quite in the same way as the 3rd singular present passive :
marisii " [Every one] shall have to die ” (Up. 206) mind kima jidisii kahaji "0 uncle ! tell [us] how we shall live !" (P. 383) $189. Examples of the present participle passive are : 1 in ij : lijatai "Being talen" ($aßt. 55) sevijatai "Being attended upon " (Adi C.) pijrtai heiat “Being drunk" (Up. 96)
