History of Bengali Language and Literature c6.s8.69

c6.s8.69

The case-affix in Bengali of the nominative (first person, singular) is generally formed by omitting the aspirate or the nasal ং of Sanskrit. The affix এ of the Sanskrit instrumental nominative, is reduced to এ in Prākrita and used in active forms; as “শুঅণেহ ভিচ্চাণম্পকে শামীএ নিদ্ধণকেবি শোছেদি” (Mricchakatika, Canto III). Instances of this এ forming the affix of nominatives in active forms are numerous in old Bengali Mss., as :—