A Grammar of the Hindi Language

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PRINCETON, N. J.
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AUTHOR.
With the Compliments of the

A GRAMMAR
HINDI LANGUAGE
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:
A GRAMMAR
OF THE
HINDI LANGUAGE:
IN AVHICH ARE TREATED
THE HIGH HINDI', BRAJ, AND
THE EASTERN HINDI' OF THE RAMAYAN
OF TULSr DAS,
ALSO
THE COLLOQriAL DIALECTS OF RA'JPUTA'NA', KUMA'ON,
AVADH, RI'WA, BHOJPU'R, MAGADHA,
MAITHILA, ETC.,
WITH COPIOUS FHILOLOGICAL NOTES.
REV. S. h/kELLOGG, D.D., LL.D.,
OF THE AMERICA>f PRESByTERIAX MISSION, NORTH INDIA MEMBER OF THE
AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY; AUTHOR OF "THE LI;GHT OF ASIA
AND THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD;" ETC., ETC.
SECOND EDITION. REVISED AND ENLARGED.
LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUB^ER, AXD CO., Limited,
PATERNOSTER HOUSE, CHARING CROSS ROAD.
,1893,

PEEFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
At the repeated request of many friends in India,
and in view of the fact that Her Majesty's Civil
Service Commissioners for India have done the former
edition of this Grammar the honour to prescribe it
to be studied by selected candidates for the India
Civil Service, that edition having been exhausted, I
have prepared, and herewith offer to the public, a
second edition, revised and enlarged.
To the ten dialects presented in the earlier edition,
three more have been added viz., the Magadhi, the
:
Maithili, and the l^aipali, making thirteen which are
now exhibited in the Tables. The sections and Tables
which exhibit the Bhojpiiri and the Eajputana dia-
lects have also been carefully revised, and amplified
with considerable new material. The brief section in
the 1st edition (pp. 44-49), on " Dialectic Peculiari-
ties," has been enlarged to a full chapter (pp. 65-80,
of the present edition). The philological notes have
been thoroughly revised, and to a considerable extent
rewritten, in the light of the advance made since
1876 in the scientific investigation o"f the Arj^an
Vl PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION.
languages of India. I have found it impossible,
however, having due regard to proper limitations of
proportion and space, to work out in detail all of
the large number of additional forms given in the
Tables. But with the aid of the principles set forth
in Chapters III. and TV., and the abundant illustra-
tions of their application which are given, the in-
terested student, it is believed, will be able to
investigate intelligently for himself forms which are
left nnexplained.
In the Syntax, I have substituted for the Prem
Sdgar, to a considerable extent, as a source of illus-
tration, the ShaJcuntald of Kdlidds, as translated into
Hindi by Eijd Lachhman Sinh, Deputy Collector,
N.W.P. ; which is now ordered as one of the subjects
of examination for the Indian Service. I have also
occasionally introduced illustrations from other modern
works, as, especially, the drama of liandhir aur Pretii
Mohini, by Ldld Shri Nivds Das, which, is to be
commended as of special value, for the variety of
dialect used by the different characters. I have,
however, still retained many illustrative references to
the Prem Sdgar^ because, despite its very artificial
style and provincial colour, yet, as a favourite authority
for Puranic Hindooism of the BhaJdi Mdrgi school,
it is still, and is likely for some time to continue
to be, a most popular religious book among the
masses of North India, which therefore can be wisely
neglected by no missionary among them.