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PRAJÑADAŅDA 4. a. Ŝ de. 5 te (used after & n, 51, at 1, and w/ s), 9 de (after 5 d), and a ste (after 198, 5n, 8 b, c m, 3 ḥ, and vowels) are conjunctive ptcls. Being annexed to verbs of the present and past tenses they form present and past participles respectively or gerunds ; e. g. 925 gnas.te, sthitvā ‘remaining”; 5155 g gton.ste, dattvā ‘giving' ; 455"} btan.ste, dattvā “having given’; WEH'Y85175 (PD, 84), yons.su.span.ste, parityajya 'having abandoned'. Sometimes they are used also after the verbs of the future tense or gerundives ; e. g. Aas' (PD,19"), bzun.bya.ste, dhārayitavya 'to be held or accepted'. In such cases it simply introduces what follows, or implies that in the following sentence something is going to be said with regard to what is mentioned before. And in this sense it is used also after nouns, adjectives, and numerals; e. g. pag ganità: ཕང་པོ་ ལྔ་པོ་དག་ ནི་ སྔག་བསྔལ་དེ། འདི་ནི་ སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཞེས་བྱའོ །། (LV, C, 423-80) mdor.na. ñe.bar.len.paḥi. phun.po. Ina.po.dag. ni. sdug.bsnal.tel hdi. ni. sdug. bsnal. žes. byaḥo II failaigratori gani yoza gitti 'In short, five aggregates (skandhas) springing from strong attachment are misery. This is said to be misery;' གང་ སྲེད་པ་དང་། དེ་དང་དེར་ མངོན་པར་དགའ་བ་སྡེ ། འདེ་ནི་
