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ya24^ INDECLINABLE WOKDS [180if he shall hear mi/ song of praise, let our drops gladden Indra(viii. 1^ ') ; yadi tva^etat piinar bravatas, tvam brutatif thejj Uvo shall sag that to thee again, do thou say (SB.).a. With the opt. yddi is (excepting one occurrence in the &V.)found in B. only, where this use is very common. Here a case isusually supposed with a rule applicable to it in the principal clause ;c. g. yadi na saknuyat, so guaye purolasam nir vapet if he should nofbe able to do if, he should offer a cake to Agni (AB. .8. after the verb vid Jcnoir, yadiis used in the sense oftchether in one passage of the KV, (x. 129') and often in B. ;e. g.hanta na 6ko v6ttu yadi hato va vrtro jivati va come,let one of us findout irhether Vrtra is dead or whether he isalive (SB.).a. ySdi va is not only used after a preceding yadi in the sense ofor if,but also alone in the sense of or, nearly always without a verb ;e. g. so anga veda yadi va na veda lie alone knows or he does not know(x. 129') ; yam vahanti satam asva yadi va sapta ivhoin a hundredhorses draio, or seven (AV. xiii. 2" ; yadi va^itarathix or conversehj (SB.;.yfi,rhi {at the time) ichen occurs only in B. ,where it is used with thepres. or past ind., and with the opt.It has almost invariably tarhi oretarhi then as a correlative ; e. g. sa tarhy eva jayate yarhy aguimadhatte he is born at the moment when he lays his fire MS.) ; yarhi prajah.ksudham nigaeheyus tarhi navaratrena yajeta ichen his people shouldsuffer from, luimjer, he should sacrifice u:ith the rite of nine nights (TS.).y^smad does not occur as a conjunction in V., but it sometimesappears as such in B. meaning ichy e. ; g. atha yasraat samistayaJTinisinama now (follows the reason) why fJtei/ are called Samistuyajas(SB.)'.yad (an old abl. of ya) is found in V. only. It is usedwith the indicative pres. or past, and with the subj. Withthe ind. it means as far as in the RV. ; e. g. arcamasi yadeva vidma tat tva mahantam (vi. 21'') we praise thee, thegreat, as far as we Icnow (how to) it seems to mean since in;the AY. :aksiyan prthivim yad ajayata irlio ruled theearth since it arose (AV. xii. With the1"''). subj. yad meansas long as ;e. g. ananukrtyam apunas cakara yat suryamasanaitha uccarata^i he has once foras long as sun and moon aUernatclg shall rise (x.all done what is inimitahlc08^").