A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c17.32
A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c17.32
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The first steps in the direction of simplification occur in Sanskrit itself. Many of the elaborate forms cited by grammarians are of very rare occurrence in actual literature, and some of them seem almost to have been invented for the sake of uniformity. Three instances of this tendency in classical Sanskrit may here be noticed.