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INTRODUCTION There are two examples in Setu of infinitives used in certain idiomatic statements in which neuter adjectives like dukkham and dukkaram in the sense of hard, difficult qualify nouns of a different gender: ņivvodhum hoi dukkaram kavva-kaha 1.9; dukkham kālassa jāņium pariņāmo 14.48. This use of neuter adjectives that retain their form irrespective of the gender of the nouns they qualify represents a Prakrit idiom found also in other early texts?. For example, 1411341 371 qat GFS Tagg* Vasu p. 136, 1. 13; FE ariz afs' 79 7991TTT Uttaradhyayanasūtra 19.42. Examples like glög 079778 TÊ YAETE? (#1 iferenci3 without the infinitive seem to be rare.
Most of the imperatives (2nd. pers. sing.) end in su : utthesu 11.124, muasu 11.124, sāhasu 11.76, pusasu 11.92 etc. Plural forms are avamaņņaha 4.24, parumhāha 3.4 etc. Other forms (2nd. pers. sing.) are pusa 11.124; pattini (pratihi) 11.94, also pattia 11.123. Cf. pattiai (pratyeti) 13.44, pattiasi 11.90. The form pattia is used in GS 3.16,45; 4.76 etc., and many times in Svayambhū's Paümacariu 35.8; 36.13 etc.
Besides dīsihai and disihisi mentioned above, examples of the Future are hohii 11.26 etc, ehii 10.79, kāhii 4.41, galihii 5.4, aņumarihii 14,55, vasihii 4.50, uggābii 11.84, ņiattihii (nivartayisyati) 11.84, samappibii (samāpsyate) 5.4. Cf, samappai (samāpyate) 5.10, 9,83, 15.95.
Other examples of the Future are dacchāmi, dacchimi (draksyāmi) 11.77, 85; and daccbāma (pl.) 3.50. Decchiha 1 We have adopted both here and in the Trans. the reading parināmo of the
Southern and Bengal recensions. Rāmadasa's reading pariņāmam gives a different
meaning. See Extracts 14.48. 2 Such use in Sanskrit is explained in Vănana-kavyālamkārasūtravștti 5.2.23. Poona,
1927. 3 Quoted in Svayambhūcchandas, ed. Velankar, verse 54, p. 23. Cf. & affin
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