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 in the older language even, and yet more in the later, this future appears to be equivalent to the other: thus, (AB.) in his children we shall know him, whether he is one that sacrifices with knowledge or without knowledge;  (AB.) we shall tell this to the gods;  (MBh.) if later my own affair shall come up, then I will attend to my own affair;  (MBh.) ''but how will you get along alone? that, O king, is the cause of my grief about you''.

950. The conditional would seem to be most originally and properly used to signify that something was going to be done. And this value it has in its only Vedic occurrence, and occasionally elsewhere. But usually it has the sense ordinarily called "conditional"; and in the great majority of its occurrences it is found (like the subjunctive and the optative, when used with the same value) in both clauses of a conditional sentence.

a. Thus, (RV.) him, who was going here to carry off Vritra's wealth, his mother proclaimed to the knowing one;  (AB.) I was going to make (should have made) the cow live a hundred years (in other versions of the same story is added the other clause, in which the conditional has a value more removed from its original: thus, in GB., if you, villain, had not stopped [] my mouth);  (ÇB.) ''thereupon his fear departed; for of whom was he to be afraid? occasion of fear arises from a second person; (ÇB.) he leaped up; he thought it long that he should put on a garment;  (MS.) Prajāpati, verily, did not then find where he was to (should) sacrifice;  (GB.) if you should not speak thus, your head would fly off;  (ÇB.) if he had been only so much, there would have been only so many living creatures as were created at first; they would have had no progeny;  (Ç.) would the Dawn, forsooth, be the scatterer of the darkness, if the thousand-rayed one did not set her on the front of his chariot?''