A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c18.68

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B. had, in its original state, apparently no noun of the agent. In modern times, recourse has been had to Sanskrit agents, which have been used whenever required, but colloquially it is easy to do without a *nomen agentis*, by slightly varying the arrangement of the sentence, and this is generally the course pursued. Such forms as कर्ता “doer,” दाता “giver,” used in literature, are, of course, Sanskrit pure and simple, and as such do not concern our present inquiry.