Wilson Philological Lectures on Sanskrit and the Derived Languages c10.98

c10.98

In an essay published in the Bengal Asiatic Society's Journal, 1873, Mr. Beames gives the forms of the Future found in the earliest Hindî poet Chand, which are exactly similar to those in the Braj and, misled by the latter parts है, है, हौ etc. which resemble those of अस or आस so greatly, traces them to the Periphrastic Future of the Skr. चलितास्मि-सि etc. But this Future is in the first place rarely used in Skr. and altogether discarded by the Pâli and not a trace of it is to be found in any of the numerous Prâkrits. Besides if we derive these forms from the Periphrastic Future we must have in the 3rd pers. such forms as चलिआ-चलिया and चलिआर. And the old forms which Tulsidâs uses of the type of चलिहहि, from which evidently the others are derived, will remain unexplained. There can be little doubt that this derivation is wrong. We have seen the several steps by which we gradually rise to चलिहै from चलिष्यति and the chain is so well connected that this etymology must be admitted as correct. The resemblance to that form in Gujarâtî also must not be forgotten.