History of Bengali Language and Literature c6.s8.81

c6.s8.81

a doubt may naturally occur as to who the person addressed is. It is, therefore, probable that for avoiding this difficulty, the form কে was adopted to denote the accusative and dative cases. In the Gāthā and Prākrita languages instances of the affix কে in the accusative and dative cases are not wanting, as in—