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THE NON-INFLECTED GENITIVE IN APABHRAMŠA : 203
indeed a non-challengeable fact. The same, we can boldly say, is not a fortuitous manifestation, which baffles all attempts to render an account of the same--but contrarily, a natural developmet keeping perfect harmony with the tendencies, which were unfolding themselves in the great Aryan speech during its subsequent expansion-particularly at the time of its split into modern Aryan languages. So any attempt to deny the occurrence of the non-inflected gen. in Ap. is to disown established facts. So we consider that Alsdorf's proposition is vulnerable to adverse criticisms and the same should be very cautiously scrutinised with due consideration of the above-discussed facts, before one finally accepts it.
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