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The negative particles in the anuştubh feet of the Buddhayamsa 30$ Almost equally. The adjective occurs rather scarcely. Now, if the particles, which too are indeclinables, are also taken into consideration together, the indeclipable turns out to be the most prominent ooc among the parts of speech used in the feet with pegative particles.
The details, furnished above, help us to draw the following deductions : 1. The negative particles have been very scarcely used in the text.
Hardly 1.4% of the total of 5,182 feet have in them the use of these particles. And they are na and ma.
The particles are mostly found in anuştubh feet, and scarcely elsewhere. Precisely, 58 such are anustubh feet, 12 brhati, and two each are pankti and tristubh.
Of the anustubh feet, 53 are with na and 5 have mā. Of the 53 with na, only 35 come witbin our purview. The remaining 18 have been discarded, since they are mere repetitions. All the feet with mä have been discussed..
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The particles mostly appear as first syllables, but not even once as second, third and eighth syllables. As first syllable they appear in 24 feet, as fourth syllable in 7, as fifth syllable in another 7, and in one foot each as sixth and seventh syllables.
5.
As first syllable na appears 21 times, as fourth syllable 6 times, 7 times as the fifth syllable, and once as the seventh. Ma appears thrice as the first syllable and once each as fourth and sixth ones.
6.
The feet under consideration are formed of three to five words. Of them, 12 are three-worded, 21 have four words each, and 7 are five-worded.
There are altogether 30 combinations of particles and parts of speech, 16 with particles as first syllables, and 14 with particles appearing els:where in the feet. Of the 30, 16 are four-worded, while the remaining 14 are equally distributed in feet of three and five words.
As the first syllable, the particles are found once in the first foot, 9 times in the fourth, and 7 times each in the second and the third ones. Elsewhere, they appear thrice in the first feet, twice in the
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