A Graduated Pali Course

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Printed at the Industrial Home Press, 1913 - Pali language - 248 pages

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Page 135 - I. 1. Two or more nouns in apposition to each other with the attributive member placed first may be compounded and used as an adjective to qualify a substantive. The substantive must not be in apposition to the separate members of the compound. A compound of this nature is called Bahuvrlhi; as H?Nlg:, qfrTT^TC- As a Karmadharaya, *r«Klg: is equivalent to jffn^rrf. ' Ereat arm,; but as a Bahuvrihi' Jt stands for j^|HI§^ ' he whose arm is oreat, *
Page 129 - A noun in the Dative is compounded^ («) with another expressive of the material of which the thing expressed by the noun in the Dative case is made; as TrTTJT ^TT arq^-r^, 'wood for a sacrificial post.
Page 155 - A Verb is Intransitive when the action stops with the agent, and does not pass from the agent to anything else.
Page 111 - Latin prescriptions are concerned, the gerundives, sumendus, capiendiis, and mittendus, follow the rule of adjectives, and must agree in gender, number, and case with the nouns to which they relate.
Page 155 - A Verb is Transitive if the action does not stop with the agent, but passes from the agent to something else.
Page 111 - Up to ^q^>|^, these numerals may be considered as adjectives, ie they take the number and case of the noun to which they are applied ; and the first four, the gender also.
Page 85 - ... 78. na bhaje papake mitte, na bhaje purisadhame, bhajetha mitte kalyane, bhajetha purisuttame.
Page i - As to the age of the Buddhist canonical books the best evidence is the contents of the books themselves — the sort of words they use, the style in which they are composed and the ideas they express.
Page vi - European grammarians, the subjunctive mood, has the meaning of the potential, when cause is indicated as well as consequence, or when one act or condition is contingent upon another act or condition, whether the cause or consequence be past or future.
Page 74 - Adjective must agree with the noun it qualifies in gender, number, and case.

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