A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c18.23

v3.c18.23

M. stands quite alone, having its conjunctive in ऊन, as जाऊन “having gone,” होऊन “having been.” This is sometimes written ओन, and in the poets takes an increment, and appears as ऊनियां, ओनियां, as तुम्हापाशीं अम्ही येऊनियां काय ॥ (Tuk. Abh. 1888) “What is the good of my going to you?” (literally, “I near you having come, what?”) देखोनियां वस्त्रं भूषणचिं जन ॥ तात्काल मरण येतें मज। “Having seen men in fine clothes and ornaments, I am ready to die at once” (ib.).