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 and he, she, or it asked, make  he, she, or it asked the Goddess of learning ;  the moon (in the accusative case) and  having seen, make  having seen the moon. It must here be particularly observed that the accusatives abovementioned are, in the first place, for the sake of example, deprived of their drootuprukrootica affixes.

When a word, both ending and beginning with a vowel, is repeated, there 106 is Sund hi; thus, an elder brother, when repeated, becomes. brother! brother! what, in the same manner, becomes what ! what!

The pronoun she or it, when added, in composition, to other words, frequently loses the initial  thus,  a husbandman, a labourer, and she, become, in composition, a female labourer, by the elision of  in ; but in consequence of  ending in, Sund hi also may take place, according to rule 100, and the two words in question will then become ; in the same way, a man of the Comtee cast, and  she, make a woman of the Comtee cast, but as the elision of  is optional, we may also say  by inserting coo according to rules 95 and 89.

Inflexions ending in or, though included in the class of  kululoc, affix  when followed by postpositions, or prefixed in composition to other nouns commencing with an initial vowel, thus, Rama, and  opposite, make  opposite Rama,  a serpent, and  bones, make  a serpent's bones.

Having thus endeavoured to explain the changes which take place, when a word terminating in a connected vowel is followed by one commencing* with art initial vowel, I shall proceed to state those which occur, when a word ending with a connected vowel is followed by one commencing with a consonant.

If a word beginning with a consonant bo preceded by another included in the class termed Sv ex> hululoo, there is no elision or insertion of lettflfs and permutation takes place in the following instances only.