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 II. ] BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. 107 In the current dialect of Bengal this q is often used as রাজা এ ডাকিয়াছে, বাঘে ধরিয়াছে, &c. It is to be noted that the Bengali sentences, in active forms owe their construction rather to Sanskrit passive forms. The difference in the dual and plural numbers is not preserved in Prakrita. The usual affix in the plural forms being 'Z'. 3,33i for কুশলবেী, *ig*Il for 233 and like forms are frequently found in Prakrita. In old Bengali also till forms the affix of the nominative plural; as in :- Khanã. Trump traces the C-5 of the Bengali accusative to the Sanskrit 3C5, used in the locative. But Maxmuller's view, tracing Grt to the Sanskrit pleonastic f, is evidently correct. In the Gatha and Prakrita languages the instances of the affix is used pleonastically are so numerous, that some times we find it occurring in many words in a sentence-as in the Lalita Vistara:- সুবাসন্তকে ঋতুবরে অগতকে । রুতিমে প্রিয়া ফুল্লিতে পাদপকে ৷ বশবত্তী সুলক্ষণকো বিচিত্ৰিতকো । তবরূপ সুরূপ সুশোভনকো ৷ বয়ং জাত সুজাত সুসংস্থিকাঃ । সুখ কারণ দেবনারাণ বসন্ততিকাঃ ॥ উখি লঘু পরিভুজ্জা সুযৌবনকং। জুলভ বোধি নিবাৰ্ত্তয় মানসকং | The Bengali accusative.
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