“Genitive–Accusative” in Marāṭhi

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Dr. Lesný (pp. 179–82 of the Journal for January) appears to raise three objections to my criticism on his first note: (1) that my derivations are doubtful, (2) that he meant by genitive that case which Marāṭhī grammarians call dative or accusative, and (3) that he is correct in maintaining what he had said in his first note about the use of animate and inanimate objects of a transitive verb. And he sums up by informing me that Marāṭhī prose of to-day differs from Marāṭhī poetry of the thirteenth century. Will you allow me to offer my final remarks on the subject?