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292 OUTLINES OF SYNTAX [194-195and in otliers the masc. sing, has become stereotyped as a nom. of allgenders and numbers.b. The use of a predicative adjective referring to two or moresubstantives differing in gender is very rare it then seems to ; agreein gender with the subst. nearest it, or the niasc. seems to have beenpreferred to the neut. e.; g. traya vdi ndirrta aksah striyah sv^pnab(^MS.) (Jice, women, and deep (are) the treble pernicious (things) eva; hyasya kamya stoma ukth&m ca sarnsya thus indeed his two favourites,stoma and vktha, are to be recited (i. 8'";. A predicative adj. dependenton kr agrees with its subst. ;if there are two, the du. is used ; e.g.ddivlm ca vavd^asma etd.d visam manusim ca^fi,nuvartmanau karotiso he makes the divine and the Mimanfolk obedient to him (MS.\3. As in Greek and Latin, a demonstrative pronounagrees with a predicative noun in gender and number ; e. g.ye tnsah sa tvak tvJiat (are) the husJcs {that =) those (are) theski)} (AB.); yad asm samksaritam asit tani vayamsi^abhavan what teas the concentrated tear {those =) that becamethe birds (SB.).Pronouns.195. A. Personal, a.Owing to its highly inflexionalcharacter the Vedic language, like Latin and Greek, usesthe nominatives of personal pronouns far less frequentlythan modern European languages do. Being already inherentin the first and second persons of the finite verb suchpronouns are expressed separatelyemphasizing.only when they requireb. The unaccented forms of aham and tvam (109 a) beingenclitic, can be used neither at the beginning of a sentenceor metrical line (Pada), nor after vocatives, nor before emphasizing,conjunctive or disjunctive pai"ticles.e. Bhavan Your Honour, the polite form of tvam, whichfirst comes into use in B., properly takes a verb in the3. sing. But being practically equivalent to a personalpronoun of the 2. pers., it occasionally appears with a verbin that persone.; g. iti vava kila no bhavan pura^