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452 APPENDIX III= rathi^m ' ;svar - = siiar n. liffht ;tanvam= tanuam.''Here the original vowel with its Udatta must be restored inpronunciation except in a very few late passages.7. Double Accent. One form of dative infinitive andtwo types of syntactical compounds have a double accent.The infinitive in tavai, of which numerous examples occurboth in the Samhitas and the Brahmanas, accents both thefirst and the last syllable e. ; g. 6-tavai to go ; apa-bhartavaito take mvay. Compounds both members of whichare duals in form (186 A 1), or in which the first memberhas a genitive ending (187 A 6 ft),accent bothmembers e. ; g.mitra-varuna Mitra and Varum ;brhas-pati lord ofprayer.In B. a double accent also appears in the particle vava.8. Lack of Accent. Some words never have an accent ;others lose it under certain conditions.A. Alwaysenclitic are :a. all cases of the pronouns ena he, she, it, tva another,sama some ;and the following forms of the personal pro-,nouns of the first and second persons:ma, tva ; me, te ;nau, vam; nas, vas (109 a), and of the demonstrativestems i and sa : im (111 n. 3) and sim (180).h. The particles ea and, u also, va or, iva Uhe, gha, hajust, cid at all, bhala indeed, samaha somehow, sma just,indeed, svid probably.B. Liable to loss of accent according to syntacticalposition are :a. vocatives, unless beginning the sentence or Pada.6. finite verbs in principal clauses, unless beginning thesentence or Pada.c. oblique cases of the pronoun a, if unemphatic (replacinga preceding substantive) and not beginning the sentence orPada ;e. g. asya janimani his (Agni's) births (but asyausasah of that daivn).Ace. of rathi charioteer.In the TS. always written suvar.^^^ Ace. of tanu body.