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 "lest I cut off the virāj" (such cases are frequent in the Brāhmaṇas); — and the interrogative whether? thus,  will he come hither for our praises?

596. But further, the verb of a prior clause is not infrequently accented in antithetical construction.

a. Sometimes, the relation of the two clauses is readily capable of being regarded as that of protasis and apodosis; but often, also, such a relation is very indistinct; and the cases of antithesis shade off into those of ordinary coördination, the line between them appearing to be rather arbitrarily drawn.

b. In many cases, the antithesis is made distincter by the presence in the two clauses of correlative words, especially —, —, —, —: thus, some go on and on, others sit about (as if it were while some go etc.);  either pour out, or fill up;  both do thou thyself become kindled, Agni, and do thou increase this person. But it is also made without such help: thus,  the unborn progeny he generates, the born he embraces;  [though] she has gone away from you, she does not come to us;  the priest does not become blind, the demons do not destroy the sacrifice;  ''by whom [on the one hand] are the somas dipped out? by whom [on the other hand] are they offered?''

597. Where the verb would be the same in the two antithetical clauses, it is not infrequently omitted in the second: thus, beside complete expressions like both thou art broad and thou art good, occur, much oftener, incomplete ones like  Agni was in yonder world, Yama [was] in this;  by bone some creatures stand firm, by flesh others;  both protect everything of ours that is biped, and also whatever that is quadruped belongs to us.

a. Accentuation of the verb in the former of two antithetical clauses is a rule more strictly followed in the than in the Veda, and least strictly in the RV.: thus, in RV.,  (not )  I am superior to the sky in greatness, also to this great earth; and even  Indra knows, and the terrible Angirases.

598. There are certain more or less doubtful cases in which a verb-form is perhaps accented for emphasis.

a. Thus, sporadically before in any wise, and in connection with asseverative particles, as  and (in ÇB., regularly) : thus,  ''come on! let us share up this earth.''