Arddhmagdhi Grammar

Author(s): P L Vaidya
Publisher: Modern Book Depot

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ARDHAMĀGADHI GRAMMAR
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attributes or adjectival phrases and relative clauses dependent upon it ; then comes the object term together with its attributes or adjectival phrases and relative clauses dependent upon it ; then come adverbs followed by the verb. The adjectives normally precede the noun they qualify, but at times, particularly when the adjectival phrase consists of more than one word, they are allowed to come after the noun.
107. This rule about the position of words in a sentence is considerably slackened in metrical composition where a verb may come before all other words such as subject and object.
108. The adjectives qualifying a noun generally agree with it in number, gender and case. The cardinal numbers, declined in the singular only, namely, numbers from 19 to 48, and from 59 to 99, agree with the noun they qualify in case only. Thus we have : grande guata HTI OTT, of the nāyas (i. e., narratives of well-known persons ), they have declared nineteen lessons '; gregardit GĦOTT, Á HETETT, atat
aghaT TETIT, in books on dreams they mention fortytwo dreams, thirty great dreams, (in all) seventy-two dreams'; वीसं वासाइं सामण्णपरियागं पाउणित्ता, 'having led the life of a monk for twenty years ’; aratiti pastaTi faFEAT, ' having taught seventy-two arts’; arra greit, dasë, 'with seventyfive years still left '; araftar Prag, in twenty-two unpleasant contacts or troubles'.
109. But sometimess in prose as well as in verse the usual rules of concord of number, gender and case are not observed in Ang. (i) qui, Hà, forgūtoi BTÉ Og ri...
og AliEAT,' under this pretext, sir, I shall just bring King Paesi hither'. Here the subject 37 in the singular is used with the verb आणेस्सामो in the plural. अङ्कवाणिया