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 40 TELOOGOO GRAMMAR. ~3 > ?f .................. ...... behind, after. 13oa>cl ....................... behind. tO&Dj&TT -<02&>o .......... against, opposite*

CONVERTING THE PRECEDING WORD INTO THE ACCUSATIVE CASE.

Scr-2>H- - />8cS>. foQo-& towards, on account of. FOUND IN BOOKS ONLY. . ....through. ....... .from, by. through.

Under the following rules, the whole of these words may be added to any noun or pronoun, placed in the particular case which the postposition is stated above to require.

The postpositions - o s the signs of the dative case, are not used promiscuously with* any inflexion ; is added only to inflexions terminating in 9 - or ^ ; thus, inflexion ^9 Vishtnoo, dative ^8l to Vishtnoo ; inflexion $ s The Goddess of prosperity, dative ^.^i^ to the Goddess of prosperity ; and o to inflexions ending in any other letter, inflexion ""&> a stick, dative to a stick, inflexion S> & a ruler, dative 0 f a ruler, inflexion Sfo/fosS" a woman, dative Sfo/foS^ to a woman: but it is requisite to insert the syllable 3 between o anc | a inflexions ending in N> "^ or ^ ; as, inflexion Rama, dative TT 3 S5ixD^6 to Rama, inflexion 65o?5s^o beauty, dative JSs^xD?5o to beauty.

The postposition $ is added only to the inflexions of nouns denotin^ inanimate things ending in ^>; thus, we may say -^^x$ in the paper, because the inflexion ~3^s&j ends in *o ; but we cannot add $ to S^V a female garment, for it ends in *-, nor to /^ow^ a horse, because it is an *) animate object.

Inflexions always terminate in some vowel, and the postpositions &O&, eJfcoo, e)ewtf, &>& } a nd ^SbTV commence with vowels; but, by the rules already given, two'^owels cannot come in contact; a singular inflexion