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350 Nominative of the predicate of a few verbs of incomplete predication. For at Hag arag I Das. 9.4.14. 'He becomes an eternal Siddha.' कसाया अग्गिणो वुत्ता । U. 23.53. 'Passions are said to be fires.' Bg SITAT I Ay. 1.1.1. 'Who was I?' Ta poate faît o 1 Erz.' The king made her the owner of the whole kingdom.'
Words standing in apposition to the subject and words joined with nāma naturally remain in the nominative; atthi iheva bhārahe väsve pondavaddhanam nāma puram/tammi siharaho nāma rāyā Erz. 48.24, ‘There is in this very country of Bharata a town P. by name. There the king was S. by name.' Note the use of the predicative nominative : (te) nigganthā pavvaiya Pau. 5.58. they became Niggantha monks.'
351 Nominative is used with a to form the logical object of a sentence. À qui a I Sut. 1.2.3.16. 'The fool regards it as protection. Qui ad F F ar i Das. 7.12. He should not call a thief as thief.'
Acc. may be found as in riddhimantan ti alave Das. 7.52. 'may call him as rich. Further Nom. for Acc. adverbs : payatto vanābhimuho Erz. 35.3! started towards forest'. For infinitive : esa vi ya nam kanhe mamam antiyam pāyavandae havvam āgacchai Ant. 40. ^ This Kanha comes to me for saluting my feet.' With the interjection aho: aho dujjayattam mohassa Erz. 3.35.
O the difficulty of conquering delusion.' In enumeration : pudhavī āu teū vā vāu āgāsapancamā Sut. 1.1.1.7. 'Earth, water, fire, wind and sky as the fifth.' In cases like pādei rayanavutihi Pau. 3.69.‘he showers jewels.' bhañjanti bālassa vahena pitthi Sut. 1.5.2.14. 'They break the back of the ignorant man with weapon.' kahehi dārayauppatti Vas. 119.14. “Tell the origin of the child' we should better admit the interchange of a long vowel for a nasalised one. A disjunctive use of the Nom. is found in : so eva bhaniyametto viņiggao naravai Paum. 28.31. " When he said thus the king went away.'
352 ACCUSATIVE : It expresses the object of transitive verbs : acela a El Sut. 1.1.2.1. “They undergo
