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8. Occasionally even knowledge of a sacrificial detail is similarly praised : jó vá agnihotrd sya daitda
devi védá gha tuka enath pafupdtir bhfuaty á gha tuko'sya pafupitih pasín MS 1.8.5. It is noteworthy that in such sentences syat is used when the likelihood of some untoward happening is expre
ssed and bhavati when the opposite is the case. 9. The word abhigha tuka does not seem to be otherwise attested. Expressions abhimt nuka and
dghaluka are more common. Pāņini teaches the suffix -uka after certain roots which include
han but not man (3.2.154 ). 10. E. g. the Ait, Br. 13.10 (-3.34 ) recommends to say rudriya instead of rudra cf. prajayemahi
rudriya prajabhir iti bruyan na rudraty atasyaida na mah parihtiyal.
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