A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c19.28

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The older form of this group is still preserved in the Purbi form इम or इमि, जिमि, तिमि. Chand has both this series and the modern one in यों, as यों भयौ रिषि अवधूत । “Thus the Rishi was absorbed in thought” (Pr.-R. i. 48), त्यों इह कथ्य प्रमाणं ॥ ज्यों जानि कोविदं लोयं ॥ “Thus this story is proved, its learned folk know” (ib. xiii. 5), पदमावती इम ले चल्यौ । हरषि राज पृथराज । “King Prithiraj, rejoicing, thus (ima) led away Padmâvatî” (ib. xx. 35), तहां सु केम किज्जै गमन । “How can one go there?” (ib. i. 90). Tulsi Das has इमि, जिमि, etc., as in तन पसेउ कदली जिमि कांपी “Her body was in a sweat, she trembled as a plantain-tree (trembles).”—Ram. Ay-k. 131.