A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v2.c12.40

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Concerning the cause of the parallel existence of the two forms there has hitherto been much doubt. Dr. Trumpp considers it a mere matter of accident, and thinks the presence of one form or the other is due to habit and daily usage.¹ Dr. Hoernle, however, holds, and with justice, that this reasoning is insufficient, and would ascribe all words which exhibit the â = o termination to the forms of nouns with an added क, which are extremely common in Prakrit. To this opinion I in the main subscribe. I think myself fortunate in this second volume to have hints from other and better scholars than myself, which were wanting when the First Volume was written.