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The negative particles in the anustubh feet of the Buddhavamsa 301
d.
that the particle is immediately preceded by some noun in two feet, by some pronoun in three, and in two feet by some indeclinable; that the passive participle vattabbo in the foot ganṇanāya na vattabba (7.3c) behaves in the context as a verb, and it has been reckoned as a verb;
C.
e.
that all the feet end with some verb which incidentally is preceded by the negative particle.
The following table speaks of the distribution of the particles and the parts of speech as particular words of the feet under consideration.
na
n
p
ad
i
1st
5
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1
7
noun
39
2nd
2
pronoun
""
4
99
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order of words
3rd
4
total
7
7
5
1.
27
From the above table we come to know that of the parts of speech only the verb appears as the fourth, and as the first and second words mainly the noun and the pronoun. The verb comes more frequently than the indeclinable, the only other part of speech found as the third word. The lone fifth word again is a vero. Considered overall, the verb occurs most frequently. Next, in uniformly diminishing order appear the noun, pronoun and indeclinable. The adjective is extremely rare.
indeclinable
To turn to metrical combinations of the feet referred to in the above table, details of which are given below.
preceding parts of speech
particles
na
39
23
39
39
4th
1
39
د.
metrical patterns
u
5th
uu-u
11
u u
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I f
u
1711
total
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references 2. 85a
7. 3c
2.106b
1. 42d
1. 64b
2.100a
2. 9b
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