कहा राजा अब मैं

kahá rájá ab main

उग्रसेन के भाई देवक की कथा Ugrasen ke bhai Devak ki kathâ

कहता हूं कि उस के चार बेटे थे और छः kahta hún ki us ke char bețe the aur chhaḥ बेटियां । सो छओं बसुदेव बसुदेव को व्याह दीं। सातवीं betiyan. So chhaon Basudev ko byah din. Satwin देवकी हुई जिस के होने से देवताओं को प्रसन्नता Devaki hui jis ke hone se devataon ko prasannatá भई। और उग्रसेन के भी दस पुत्र पर सब से bhai. Aur Ugrasen ke bhi das putra par sab se कंस ही बड़ा था। जब से जन्मा तब से यह Kans hi bará thâ. Jab se janma tab se yah उपाध करने लगा कि लगा कि नगर में जाय' छोटे upádh karne laga ki nagar nagar men jay men jay chhote छोटे लड़कों को पकड़ पकड़ लावे और पहाड़ chhote larkon ko pakar pakar lawe aur pahar की खोह में मूंद मूंद मार मार डाले । ki khoh men múnd mund már már dále.

CHAPTER II.

Of the Substantive.

5. In the Hindi there are two numbers, singular and plural; and two genders, masculine and feminine. 2

1 When following a vowel, Te ando are frequently used for य ya and व wd. Hence, होए hoe, पाए pde, बिलाओ billo.

2 What is here and elsewhere said of the Hindî, generally applies equally to the kindred dialect, the Braj Bhâkhâ. In the declensions and conjugations, the forms peculiar to the latter will be exhibited in parallel columns with the Hindî.

Names of males are masculine; names of females, feminine.

आ

Substantives ending in a, a, or at an are, generally, masculine; those ending in

or in are, generally, feminine. There are many exceptions, however, to this rule; the distribution of genders being very arbitrary.

6. Declension is effected by means of particles placed after the word, and hence termed postpositions. These postpositions often occasion certain changes in the terminations of words. This change is technically termed inflection; and the form of the word thus modified is called its inflected form. For the purpose of declension, substantives may conveniently be divided into two classes; the first containing such masculines as end in a, á, and an, while the second comprises the remaining substantives of the language. The word, a son, may serve as an example of the

1 The rule for the use of the three postpositions of the genitive

will be given hereafter.

2 Or के तई.

SINGULAR.

Acc. बेटे को ' a son.

Voc. ऐ बेटे O son !

Abl. बेटे से from a son.

PLURAL

बेटों को sons.

ऐ बेटो O sons .

बेटों से from sons.

Nouns in an may be declined like the above; or they may retain the nasal in the inflected form of the singular, after changing the ά to чe.

7. In the following example, the Braj Bhakha forms are given in parallel columns with the Hindî. The word पुरुष, a man, (as it ends in neither a, ä, nor án), differs from a, in undergoing no inflection in the oblique cases of the singular, or in the nominative plural. It belongs to the

8. Feminine nouns, in Hindi, differ from masculines of the second declension, in the nominative plural only. Those not ending iní take en in the nominative plural; as बातें, ' words, from बात. Those ending in ई í change that termination to इयां iyan in the nominative plural. In the Braj Bhâkhâ, a nasal only is added. Example:

पुत्री a daughter.

SINGULAR.

Hindi.

Nom. पुत्री

Gen. पुत्री का, के, की

Dat. पुत्री को

Acc. पुत्री को

Voc. ऐ पुत्री

Abl. पुत्री से

1 Or

Braj Bhákha.

पुत्री a daughter.

पुत्री कौ, के, की of a daughter.

पुत्री कौं to a daughter.

पुत्री की a daughter.

हे पुत्री O daughter !

पुत्री सों from a daughter.

पुरुषन,

and so in the Dat., Acc., and Ablative.

± The Braj Bhákha form is बातें.

undergo no

9. Some masculine nouns in change in the nominative plural, or in the oblique cases of the singular. They are, therefore, of the second declension. E.g.: fч, a father; fua, from a father; पिता, fathers ; पिताओं से, from fathers. The words, a king, , a father, and others, particularly in the Braj Bhâkhâ, are thus declined.

وا

10. Words of two short syllables, with the vowel a in the second, drop that vowel, when a termination beginning with a vowel is added. Thus, TTA, ɑ year, becomes, in the accusative plural,

.

CHAPTER III.

Of the Adjective.

11. ADJECTIVES, when employed as concrete nouns, are declined like substantives. When they agree with

1

1Or yfe, and so in the Dat., Acc., and Ablative.