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278 NOMINAL STEM FOKMATION [189occurring at all. Thus brhad-uktha adj. having great 2)t'aise,m. a seer : brhad-diva adj. (licelling in high heaven, m. a seer,f. brhad-diva a goddess ;m. as names only, Priya-medha[to ivhom sacrifice is dear) and Vama-deva {io whom the godsare dear).b.They appear not infrequentl}^ as n. substantives withan abstract (sometimes a collective) sense, especially whenthe first member is the privative particle a- or an-, or theadjective sarva all ; e. g. an-apatya, adj. childless (AV.),n. childlessness', sarva-vedasa (AV.) n. whole 2)ro;pcrty',ni-kilbisa n. deliverance from sin ;matr-bandhu (AV.) n.maternal Jdnship.c. With numerals, from dvi two upwards,member, they form sing, neuters ' (always endingas their firstin accenteda) with a collective sense ; e. g. tri-yuga n. period ofthree lives ; dvi-raja (AV.) n. battle of two lungs ; dasangulan. length of ten fingers (4 d).4. The final member of Bahuvrlhis is liable to variouschanges tending to make it end in a.«. The n of several words in an, k^rmau," dharaan, naman, p4rvan,vfsan, sakthin, is frequently dropjied in ordinary Bahuvrlhis, and thatof dhan in numeral collectives ;e. g. visvd-karma^ jierforming all icork,priya-dharaa occupying desirable places, chando-nami (VS.) named metre,metrical, vi-parva* joinfless, dvi-vrs£ (VS.) having txvohulls, lomasdsaktha(VS.) haxing hainj thighs ;sad-aha (AV.) ni. pei'iod of six days.b. Tlie suffixes a and ya ai'e frequently added, and sometimes ka ;e. g. catur-aks-d four-eyed, su-g^v-a having fine cows, anyodar-ya hornfrom another womb (uddra), ddsa-mas-ya ten months old, madhu-hast-yahonej-ha)ided, try-amba-ka haring three mothers, vi-manyu-ka (AV.)/recfrom anger, a-karnd-ka (TS.) earless.c. The suffix in {possessing) is sometimes pleonasticallj' added :maha-hast-m having large hands, ku-nakh-in (AV.) having had nails.'Except those formed with aha day, which are m., as sad-aha m.series of six days.2But this word retains its n in seven compounds in the RV.*But also viiSvdL-karman.*But a-parv&n and vfsa-parvan.