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101] ORDEK OF WORDS 285emiihatic may be placed at the beginninge.; g. svapantamvai diksitam raksamsi jigharasanti H is when lie sleeps thatthe llalcmses seek to slay the initiated man (TS.).e. The attribute, whether adjective or genitive, precedesits substantive ; e. g. hiranyayena rathena nuth golden car(i. Sb'^)devanam hota the; priest of the gods. Only whenadjectives are used in apposition, especially as epithets ofthe gods, do they follow ; e. g. mitraya satyaya to Mitra,the true (TS.)- Also adjectives designating the colours ofcertain animals, especially horses and cows, are found afterthe subst. The subst. belonging to a gen. is placed beforethe latter only when it is emphatic.The,/; preposition belonging to a verb precedes it, alwaysin B., generally in V.. where, however, it also sometimesfollows ;e. g. jayema sam yudhi sprdhah ive would conquerour foes in battle (i. 8-^).The preposition as a rule immediatelyprecedes the verb, but is often also separated from itby one or more words e.; g.a sayakam maghava^adattathe Bounteous One seised his missile (i.32 ) ; apa tamahpapmanam hate she drives aivay darkness and sin (TS.).When a compound verb is emphatic, the preposition aloneas a rule moves to the front occupying the positionsimple verb would occupy ;that thee. g. pra prajaya jayeya I tvouldincrease with progeny (TS.).When used with substantives the genuine prepositions asa rule follow their case, while the prepositional adverbsprecedeit. The reason of this doubtless is that the formersupplement the sense of the case, while the latter modifythe sense much more emphatically.g. Multiplicative adverbs precede their genitive ; e. g.trih samvatsarasya three times a year.h. Enclitics cannot, of course, begin a sentence. If theybelong to a particular word they follow it ;otherwise theytend to occupy the second position in the sentence. Theenclitic particles that follow the word with which they are