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Syntax of the Past Tense in Old Rājasthāni

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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PROFESSOR J. BLOCH in L'Indo-aryen du Veda aux temps modernes, p. 271 f., has discussed the passage of the passive construction of the past tense of transitive verbs (based on the past participle of Sanskrit) into an active construction in which the verb agrees in number and gender with the logical subject. It is obvious that during the course of this evolution there were periods of fluctuation. An astonishing fluctuation is found in the Rājasthānī MS. Nala kī bāta (R.A.S. Todd Coll. No. 81), written at some date prior to A.D. 1806.

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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1936

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page 695 note 1 Direct, gen. oblique and instrumental are identical in form.

page 696 note 1 Direct, gen. oblique, and instrumental are identical in form.

page 697 note 1 Direct, oblique, and instrumental are identical in form.