JUNNAR TALUKA.

FEBRUARY, 1873.]

Present Participle. 1. D h a ru, holding. 2. Dharat (or dharata), holding. -

ii, a faith,

| to

The first of these is the old Hindi form so

common in all the poets, the second is the modern Bengali form, the third is an intermediate

form from the older dhariyai of some Hindi

Infinitive. D h a rite

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poets. No distinction is made between singular and

hold.

participle dharat, and though it is now used as

plural; this is very much the case in modern Bengali, and especially so in the rural dialects,

a regular infinitive in modern Bengali, yet in

thus—

This is really the locative case of the present

our text it must in most places be translated as

a locative. Thus in song No. I. given above, heraita is “in (his) looking,” i.e. ‘when he looks;”

parasite, “in (his) touching,” i. e., “when he touches.” This sense is retained in the compound present of modern Bengali; thus dekhitechhi, “I am seeing,” is dekhite + achhi-‘‘I am in (the act of) seeing.” Conjunctive Participle. 1.

D h a ri,

2. 3.

D h a ri y á, having held. D h a ri y e,

Sab sakhi meli sutala pāśa—

“All (her) friends meeting slept beside her.” Where sutala agrees with the plural noun. Of the 3rd person imperative, a good example is Måna rahuk puna jàuk parāna— “Let honour remain, but let life go.” I do not, of course, pretend to have exhausted Bidyāpati’s grammar in these few remarks; but the more salient points have been indicated, partly with a view to fix the master's place in philology, and partly to exhibit the rise of the distinctive formations of modern Bengali.

NOTES ON JUNNAR TALUKA. By W. F. SINCLAIR, Bo, C. S.

(Continued from page 12.) Four miles below the Manik Dho stands the

city of Junnar, commonly called Jooner—a typi cal specimen of an old Mughul garrison town.

It lies upon the slope between the river on the north and the fort of Siwner on the south, and

fills up altogether a space of about one mile and a half long and one mile broad, besides the usual contingent of garden-houses, mosques, and cemeteries. In the days of Aurangzeb it was for a long time one of the chief posts of the

imperial army, frequently of the Viceroy in person, lying, as it did, in the centre of its group of fortresses, blockading the great routes of the

Nānā and Malsej ghāts, and offering every convenience for observing and incommoding the restless

Śivāji in his Swarāj.“ The population

of Junnar, exclusive of fighting-men, must in those days have been from 35,000 to 40,000

town either on the site or in the neighbourhood of the modern Junnar. In the little village of Amarapura, about two miles east of the present city, there are great numbers of sculptured stones built into wells and tombs, apparently themselves the remains of Hindu temples. In the same place Mr. Dickinson, an English gentleman settled on the spot, found a stone which, I think, has been either a lintel or part of a frieze sculptured with a row of sitting figures, apparently Buddhist. There was within a few years ago an old Musalmān Jemadār hanging about the fort of Châkan, 18 miles north of Punā, in whose family, he said, was a tradition that Malik'ul Tijär, when he built the fort, brought a great number of large stones from the temples which he destroyed in Amara

loon in “his youthful hose well saved, a world

pura of Junnar. The Châkan fort itself is very much overgrown with prickly-pear and rubbish, and has been many times besieged, and at least twice mined, since the days of Malik'ul Tijār,

too wide for his shrunk shank.”

souls.

It mow contains about 8,500, and reminds

one, within its ample enceinte, of the old panta The name

which perhaps in part accounts for the fact

Junnar is said to be a corruption of Jáná Nagar– “ the ancient city;” and indeed it is probable that there has always, since traffic and population got

that I, at any rate, could find no stones: there at all corresponding to those of Amarapura. Of an earlier date, probably, than even these

any hold on the country, been a considerable

ancient remains are some at least of the Bud

• The Marathi name of the original kingdom of the Bhonslas, lying between the Bhima and the Nirã.