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 with: as, (RV.) do thou enjoy the juice;  (S.) they fill with butter; — with verbs meaning, note, care for, regard with feeling of various kinds: as,  (RV.) Indra listened to Vasishtha who was praising him;  (AV.) that he may think of me;  (MBh.) he was angry at him.

c. A genitive of more doubtful character, with verbs meaning rule or have authority: as, (RV.) thou art lord of good things;  (AV.) that I may rule over them;  (M.) how has death power over those who know the Vedas and treatises?

d. A genitive, instead of an ablative, is sometimes found used with a verb of receiving of any kind (hearing included), and with one of fearing: thus, (M.) whoever accepts a gift from a greedy king;  (MBh.) learn from me;  (MBh.) we are afraid of thee.

298. A genitive in its usual possessive sense is often found as predicate, and not seldom with the copula omitted: thus, (AV.) that thou mayest be wholly mine;  (H.) all good fortunes are his who has a contented mind; — as objective predicate,  (M.) they recognise a son as the husband's.

299. a. The prepositional constructions of the genitive (1130) are for the most part with such prepositions as are really noun-cases and have the government of such: thus,, , , and the like; also with other prepositional words which, in the general looseness of use of the genitive, have become assimilated to these. A few more real prepositions take the genitive: either usually, like above, or occasionally, like, ,.

b. A genitive is occasionally used in the older language with an adverb, either of place or of time: thus, (ÇB.) in whatever part of Kurukshetra;  (MS.) on what spot of earth he may be born;  (RV.) at this time of the day;  (MS.) on the morn of what night;  (K.) twice a year. Such expressions as the last occur also later.

300. a. The genitive is very little used adverbially; a few genitives of time occur in the older language: as, by night,  by day; and there are found later such cases as  (Ç.) after a certain time;  (R.) then after a long time he went forth.

b. A genitive, originally of possession, passing over into one of general concernment, comes in the later language (the construction is unknown earlier) to be used absolutely, with an agreeing participle, or quite rarely