A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c19.17

v3.c19.17

Here, as always in H., the negative has to be inserted, and we must translate जब लगि by “so long as.” This idiom is not peculiar to H., but is found in many other languages. In modern Hindi जब तक राम घर को नहीं आवे “So long as Râm comes not home,” i.e. “until he comes,” and the same in P.