MacDonnell II - Wilbourhall.org

•''This"'272 NOMINAL COMPOUNDS [is73. Dat. :vakmaraja-satya falt/i/ul to the onlaincrs ofhymns visva-sambhu;salutary for all.4. Abl. :go-ja produced from cows ;tivra-su-t pressedfrom the fermenting mass.5. Gen. (the commonest sense):raja-putra Icing's son ;vis-psitilo rd of the clan; deva-kilbisa m. offi nee against the'gods ; dru-pada n. post ofivood.'6. Loc. :ahar-jata (AV.) horn in the day ; uda-pluta (AV.)swimming in the water ; purii-bhu being in many places ;bandhu-ksit dwelling among relatives.a. In their first member many dependent compoundsretain the case-ending, most commonly the ace, often theloc, but the rest rarely. Sing, endings (ace. and inst.) mayexpress a plur. sense. Plur. endings (ace. and loc.) sometimesoccur, but du. endings never in these compounds.The aec. generally expresses the object of a transitiveverb. The form in am is, in the RV., the rule before theverbal nouns -kara maJcing, -caya collecting, -jaya conquering,-tara overcoming, -dara cleaving, -bhara hearing, -rujahrealdng, -sani winning, -saha overwhelming ;e. g. abhayamkarapirocnring security, dhanam-jaya winning tjooty, puram-dara,^destroying forts, sutam-bhara * receiving pressedSoma ;it also occurs before other verbal nouns, not infrequentlybefore such as l^egin with vowels e.; g. dhiyam-dhadevout, visvam-inva all-moving, asvam-isti^ seeding horses.An example of a cognate ace. is subham-ya moving inhrilliance, and of an adverbial ace, ugram-pasya (AV.)looling fiercely. Examples of an ace. pi. ending are ka-citkaradoing all manner of things ; pasva-istidesiring Jcine.1An example of an objective genitive.2Here the genitive expresses the material.'The singular ace. form with plural sense.*Also im in pustim-bhard hringing pro^pcrilij ami harim-bliarilhearinc/ fhe lawny (bolt).and asvam-isti are Tatpurusa possessives (181), 2).