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XII. a) The following forms are quoted from letters written to a pleader in Gooti by clients residing in various surrounding villages.
- b) From similar letters addressed to a pleader of the district court of Kurnool. , oij,
- c) From letters addressed by parties residing in the Ceded districts to persons residing in Anantapore.
21. There are two classes of forms in St. The most numerous are the present participle forms in-tu to which the personal terminations are added. In others the past particle-ti coalesces with the final consonant of a verbal theme. The great frequency of forms with St is due to the very large proportion in the language of Sanskrit verbs which take the formative All the grammars which deal with the living vernacular treat of these forms.
- 1) W. Brown’s grammar (1817) p.80
- 2) Campbell’s grammar (second edition 1820). It was published by the Government who purchased the copy-right of the work from the author. Campbell gives the literary and modern forms side by side (p.98 and pp 11 to 12)
- 3) Grammar of the Telugu Language by C.P. Brown, (second edition 1857 p. 86, pp. 124-134,149, 158 & 159)
