History of Bengali Language and Literature c6.s8.76

c6.s8.76

Trump traces the কে of the Bengali accusative to the Sanskrit কৃতে, used in the locative. But Maxmuller’s view, tracing কে to the Sanskrit pleonastic ক, is evidently correct. In the Gāthā and Prākrita languages the instances of the affix ক used pleonastically are so numerous, that sometimes we find it occurring in many words in a sentence—as in the Lalita Vistāra:—