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216 INDECLINABLE WOEDS [180for, with gam, serve, with bhu, accrue (to any one) suitaUi/ orsufficiently, always taking the dative.a. dlara, the form in which the preceding word appears in B., is thereoften similarly used ;e. g. sa nllam ahutya asa nalam bhaksaya itwas not fitfor offering, nor fit for consuming (SB.).aha in the KV. and AV. emphasizes a preceding M^ordwhether it be verb, substantive, pronoun, adjective, adverb,or preposition. Its sense may generally be exj^ressed bysurely, certainly, indeed, just, or merely by stress. It alsoappears after other emphasizing particles such as id, gh6d,ut6, im. Examples of its use are: kvaha ivhere jpray?(x. 51^); naha not at all (i. 147^) ; yasyaha sakrah savanesuranyati in the pressings of wJiomsoever the mighty onerejoices (x.43*^).In B. this use of dha is still found. But here it generally occurs inthe first of two slightly antithetical sentences, the verb of the firstbeing then nearly always accented, while the antithesis in the secondsentence is either not expressed at all, or is indicated by the particlesfitha, u, or tu ;e. g. paracy d,ha dev6bhyo yajndm vdhaty arvacimanusyan avati turned away it takes the sacrifice to the gods ; turned hitherit advances men (SB.). Sometimes (in MS. and TS.) dha is thus usedwith the first of two va's ; e. g. kdsya vahedam svo bhavita kdsya vathis ivill to-morroio belong either to the one or the otJier (MS.).a (otherwise a preposition) appears in V. fairly oftenemphasizing, in the sense of completeness, words expressiveof number or degree, or sometimes even ordinary adjectivesand substantives ; e. g. trir a divah three times each day(i.142 ) ;k6 vo varsistha a, narah ivho is the very mightiestof you, heroes? (i. 37*'); pra bodhaya puramdhim jara asasatim iva awake the wise man, just as a lover a sleepingmaiden (i. 134^).ad (originally an abl. of the pronoun a =.from or afterthat) is used as an adverb expressing sequence of time =thereupon, then, often as a correlative to yad, yada or yadiwhen, sometimes to the relative when equivalent to thoseconjunctions: yad^d ayukta haritah sadhasthad ad ratri