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Neeliina Moné
'may the fathers support this pillar for you;
may Yama fix up your resting place just here.' 8. From the word - index of the Veda we know this.
9. Here we have a difficulty, we can compare imām pātặn to somam pāta
but we cannot account for the accent. Therefore we can either refer to the principle of "Word economy' enunciated by Dr. H.D. Velankar (A.B.O.R.I. 1965) or accept bahulam chandasi imām is not an obvious form, we expect
imām
asyah by the word pätyn. Therefore we can say that the poet uses as connected with dhārām in ab, against Vedic idiom.
Yet, this point is not clear and I keep my fingers crossed.
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