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 Indra's bow,  the Brahman's cow,  poison-mount,  acquisition of friends,  hundreds of fools,  Vī́rasena's son,  chief of kings,  our sons,  his words; — of dative,  water for the feet,  accumulation for a month; — of instrumental,  likeness with self,  wealth acquired by grain,  lawful spouse,  paternal relation; — of ablative,  descent from a nymph,  separation from me,  fear of a thief; — of locative,  sport in the water,  abode in the village,  untruth about a man; — of accusative,  going to the city.

1265. Dependent Adjective-compounds. In this division, only a very small proportion of the compounds have an ordinary adjective as final member; but usually a participle, or a derivative of agency with the value of a participle. The prior member stands in any case-relation which is possible in the independent construction of such words.

a. Examples are: of locative relation, cooked in a pot,  knowing in horses,  alike in age,  steadfast in battle,  beautiful in body; — of instrumental,  like his mother; — of dative,  good for cattle; — of ablative,  other than you,  eighth from birth,  other than visible (i. e. invisible); — of genitive,  best of the Bharatas,  foremost of Brahmans; — with participial words, in accusative relation,  Veda-knowing,  food-eating,  body-protecting,  truth-speaking,  committed to paper (lit. gone to a leaf); — in instrumental,  cleansing with honey,  self-made,  protected by Indra,  deserted by (i. e. destitute of) knowledge; — in locative,  pierced in the heart,  sacrificing in due season,  moving in the sky; — in ablative,  fallen from the kingdom,  afraid of a wolf; — in dative,  come for refuge.

1266. We take up now some of the principal groups of compounds falling under these two heads, in order to notice their specialities of formation and use, their relative frequency, their accentuation, and so on.

1267. Compounds having as final member ordinary nouns (such, namely, as do not distinctly exhibit the character of verbal nouns, of action or agency) are quite common. They are regularly and usually accented on the final syllable, without reference to the accent of either constituent. Examples were given above (1264 a).