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 (TS.) the mind, forsooth, can at once attain and surpass her;  (ÇB.) for who is worthy to take his secret name? In the Veda, the construction with these verbs is only one among others; in the Brāhmaṇa, it becomes the greatly prevalent one (three quarters or more of all the cases).

b. Further, of verbs of motion (next most frequent case): thus, (TS.) he goes to sacrifice things pertaining to sacrificial gifts;  (RV.) I go to Indra for (i. e. beseech of him) the lengthening out of life; — of √ persist in, undertake: as,  (ÇB.) he, as soon as born, began to burn this universe; — of verbs meaning desire, hope, notice, know, and the like: as,  (AV.) thou knowest how to loosen all bonds;  (ÇB.) therefore one should not be careful to smother the fire; — and of others.

982. Of the infinitive datives, the fundamental and usual sense is that expressed by for, in order to, for the purpose of.

Examples are: (RV.) awakening every living creature to motion;  (RV.) come to drink them;  (AV.) the gods did not give her to thee for eating;  (RV.) Indra went forward to fight the demon;  (RV.) give us sight for looking abroad.

Some peculiar constructions, however, grow out of this use of the infinitive dative. Thus:

a. The noun which is logically the subject or the object of the action expressed by the infinitive is frequently put beside it in the dative (by a construction which is in part a perfectly simple one, but which is stretched beyond its natural boundaries by a kind of attraction): thus, (RV.) he made a track for the sun to follow (made for the sun a track for his following);  (RV.) he whets his horns to pierce the demons;  (RV.) I stretch the bow for Rudra, that with his arrow he may slay the -hater;  (RV.) may they grant life again, that we may see the sun.

b. An infinitive with √ make is used nearly in the sense of a causative verb: thus, (RV.) ye make the blind and lame to see and go;  (RV.) thou hast made the fire to be kindled. Of similar character is an occasional construction with another verb: as, (RV.) what we wish to be done, may he do that;  (RV.) I desire to see the sages.

c. A dative infinitive is not seldom used as a predicate, sometimes