Samdesarasaka of Abdala Rahamana

Author(s): Abdul Rahman
Publisher: Prakrit Granth Parishad

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of such 'endingless' genitives.
Further, these together with the 'endingless' insts./loc. (see (2). below) and nom./acc. (see § 52, Remarks.) forms point out that in the case of the whole of the 37-declension at least, th bare stem without any flexion-ending could appear in the singular (as yet rarely in the plur.) of almost all cases. Add to this the formal confusion and the consequent impression of 'endinglessness' that could be caused by the homophony (1) of the instr./loc. forms in & of the fem. 39stems and the nom./acc. forms in of the fem. 5-stems ($ 54, Remarks.), as also (2) of the insts./gen. forms in 50% of the enlarged fem. 37-stems (856, Remarks). All these facts are strongly indicative of the active process of disintegration of the old morphological system, the final result whereof is seen in the languages like, e. g., Dingal which in consequence of so to say the total loss of the flexionendings at times use in both the numbers and all the cases the bare stem without any addition or modification whatsoever.
Below are collected the cases of the genitively used naked stems attested in the SR. They relate to the masc. as well as the fem. 37-stem.
urg uaria ( =YİNE) 70a, Tu quia a, 1a...E 109a, faria GHE 157b, mia...fupine 158d-159a, perifare... TEA 1910, 3Tak pas 47a, 51a, d, andes Exifra 51a, fret (with V 270T, V CE etc.) 1010, 68b, 71b, 80b, 88b, 92d, furę (with VSTO) 95b.
(2) Employment of the bare stem in the instr./loc. (sing.). As in the genitive, so in the instr./loc. too the bare stem without any ending appears occasionally, of course phonetically the form is got by the reduction of the final of the old ending. As the unenlarged present participle has lost gender-distinctions to a certain extent, we find 'endingless' forms in the case of the feminine °37-stems also. Casually we get a variant in of for the forms considered here.
Instr. sing. : 790 100c, fase 103b, 109d, gniste 183c, G4 185c, furtame 1966, he (plur.) 218a, perhaps 9777 (plur.) 216b;