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Bhojpuri, Maithili, Magahi, and Awadhi), there is a different passive suffix, -ā; āp-/apā- 'give, be given'. Chatterji (1926), following a suggestion of Grierson's supports its derivation from the OIA denominative. suffix -āya. See also Saksena (1971 : 293-4). Bloch (1965 : 238) objects that the OIA form had ‘no special force and clear antecedents go back only to MIA'.
(Masica, 317). 2. Bloch (1956), 237-238; 292-293. 3. Bloch (1965), 238. 4. Bloch (1965), 238; Tessitori (1914-1915), 140; Dave (1935),
47; Pandit (1974), 234-235. 5. Shastri (1958), 216-217 6. Gandhi (1887), 217-221 7. Bhayani (1972), 43-51.
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Uneversity Press, Cambridge, 1991. D.N.Gandhi, Dhāturupakos'a, 1887. P.B.Pandit, Gujarāti Bhāsānū Dhvanisvarūp ane Dhvaniparivartan,
1974. K.K.Shastri, Gujarāti Rūpracnā, 1958. L.P. Tessitori, 'Notes on the Grammar of Old Western Rajastani,'
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