Truths of Language or Comparative Philology of the Sanskrit Bengali and Incidentally other Prakrits

The former represents the spoken form of the learned and the latter that of the women and vulgars. [...] The occasional violations of th«r rules of grammar which will be observed in the Process of changing the Sanskrit words to their Prakrit forms are due to the fact that the changes are made by the common people not by learned men.[ The case endings. [...] The above suggestion is supported by A. H. Sayee who says `The normal place of the verb in Latin is at the end of the clause and the same rule may hr said to hold good in the German and 1)uteh lint the Romance languages which have grown lip through the contact of Teutonic and Liatit population place the verb before the objective ease. [...] The words Sanskrit and Prakrit are in this book generally used in the sense of the literary and oral forms of language respectively: It may he noted for conveniance of the readers that Chapters I. II and I V of Part I deal with the saws of cretion and modification of words and suffixes. [...] The elegance of songs is of two kinds the first is the sweetness of the music and the second is the beauty of its language.