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ISO] CONJUNCTIVE AND ADVBL. PARTICLES 221latter. Examples of its use are : lid u tyam jatavedasamdevam vahanti ketavah Ms beams note hear aloft the god thatknows all creatures (i. 50^) ;abhud ii bhah the light has justarisen (i. 46^°) ; tapa^u sv agne antaran amitran huminstantly, Agni, our neighhourlng foes (iii. 18^).a. This use of u with verbal forms does not seem to be found in B.h. It emphasizes deictic pronouns, which may then berendered by stress, and interrogative pronouns, when it maybe translated by pray e. ; g. ayam u te, sarasvati, vasisthodvarav rtasya subhage vy avah this Vasisfha has openedfor thee, hountiful Sarasvati, the tivo doors of sacrifice (vii. 95*') ;ka u sravat ivho, xoray, ivill hear ? (iv.43^).a. In B. this use is very rare with deictic ijronouns, but notinfrequent with interrogatives ; e. g. idam u no bhavisyati yadi nojesyd,nti this at least loill remain to us, if they conquer us (TS. ) ;kim u sayajnena yajeta yd gam iva yajiadm n^ duhita iohat sort of sacrifice,pray, would he offer if he were not to milk out the sacrifice like a cow ? (MS.).in the2, The particle u is used anaphorically to connect sentences,when a word (usually the first) is repeatedsecond, in the sense of also e. ; g. trir naktam yathas, triru, asvina, diva thrice hy night ye come, thrice also, Asvins,hy clay (i. 34'^) tvam trata tvam u no vrdh^ bhuh thoic he;our protector, thou, too, he for our increase (i. 178^). Therepeated word need not always have the same form :yo nodv6sty adharah. sas padista, yam u dvismas tam u prandjahatu may he ivho hates us fall downward; ivhom also loe hate,him too let his breath forsake (iii. SS^i).The u sometimesappears in both sentences, sometimes in the first only:vayam u tva diva sut6, vayam naktam havamahe tvecall thee hy day to the pressed Soma, tve also hy night (viii. 64'').a. It is sometimes used without referring back definitely,but simply adding some similar quality or activity withreference to the same thing= and also, and ;e. g. sa devodevan prati paprathe prthu, visv6d u ta paribhur brahmanaspdtih he, the god, has extended himself tvidely to the gods,and he, Lord ofVrayer, embraces all this universe (ii. 24^^).