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330, 3c: sakanni bhalli jiva "Like an arrow with feathers” 339a: taïjji bhangi "Third way"53 350, 2d: parāi kavana ghana "What pity with others?” 395, 6c: bappīkī bhumhadī“The land of the father” 406, 3a: visami kajjagaï "Capricious fate" 414, 3d: tiricchi ghatta “Attack from the side"
4. Adjectives used as non-verbal part of the predicate: 330, 1b: dhania campāvanni "The woman has the colour of the campakaflower':54 367, 5a: jaï sasanehī to muia “If she is affectionate, she will be dead" 420, 3c: hiaï tiricchi hai ji "I am hiding in his heart" 424c: vivarīrī buddhadi hoi “The mind acts contrarily"
An investigation of, for instance, the Nemināthacatuspadikā yields an identical picture. In this text, however, two instances with the short ending occur, namely hui in 11b and ūvāhuli in 38c.
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As far as the masc. and ntr. endings are concerned, we may distinguish three patterns altogether:
substantive head-noun
participle/adjective nominal predicate/adjective
1) 2) 3)
-u -u -u (sing.) -a (plur.)
-ай -ā -ā
In the Harivassapurāna, 1 and 2 occur side by side, in Hemacandra's Apabhramsa verses and the three poems edited by Baumann 1, 2 and 3 are all found. Thus, in Hemacandra's verses, beside hai ki na juttaü (340, 2c) and mai tuhủ vāriā (330, 2a), one finds jaï piu ditthu sadosu (401, 4b); beside divehi vidhattaü khāhi (422, 4a) and virahānalajälakarāliai pahiu (415a), lehi abhaggu kavālu (387, 3d); beside kantu mahāraü (358, 1a) and mā karu dīhā mānu (330, 2b), hoi asaddhalu ņehu (422, 8d);55 and, finally, beside jīviu kāsu na vallahaü (358, 2a) and jo punu aggi sīalā (343, 1c), cañcalu jīviu dhruvu maranu (418, 4ab). A
