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187] DEPENDENT DETERMINATIVES 278Inst. :gira-vi'dh irjoiciiif/ i» soiu/ ;sunesita driren hydogs ^(suna) ; vidmanapas worlchuj (apas) trith wisdom(vidmana) ;ksudha-mara (AV.) m. death hy hunger ;vacastena-thief hy speech, secretly injuring hy words.Dat. : the only exampleseems to be found in the loosesyntactical compound dasyave vrka wolf to the Basyu, usedas a proper name.Abl. :divo-ja produced from heaven ;divo-ruc shiningfrom the shy.Gen. :very common before pati hitshand or lord, as gna-spatihushand of a divine woman-, ja-s-pati lord of a family ;brahmanas-pati lord of prayer:" It also occurs in theproper names divo-dasa servant of heaven and sunah-sepaDog's-tail.Loc. : common in the RV. before agent nouns formedfrom the simple root ;e. g. divi-yaj worshipping in heaven ;x'athe-stha standing o)i a car ;also before several formedwith a e. :g. divi-ksaya dtvelling in heaven. There are alsoseveral examples of plurals, as apsu-sad direlling in thewaters; gosu-yudh fighting in {= for) Jcine ;hrtsv-sis ptiercingthe heart. The singular also occurs a few times before anordinary adj. or subst., as made-raghu quick in exhilaration ;svapne-diihsvapnya (AV.) n. evil dream in sleep.a. If a root forms the last member of a Tatpurusa, final longvowels (a, i, u) undergo no change, while short vowels* (i, u, r") usuallyadd a determinative t e. ; g. agre-pa drinkbuj first ; yajna-ni leading theSingular ending with plural sense.^2A rare example of an inst. with an ordinary substantive as finalmember.^By the false analogy of these words are also formed from a stemsrta-s-pati lord of pious ivorks and r^tha-s-pati lord of (he car. DSm-patilord of the house probably = dd.m-s-pati.* Radical a, as a shortened form of a, often appears as a final,hciefiy in the later Samhitas, as agre-ga going in front, nama-dhd (AV.)name-giving.1819 T