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 character with follow the same rule: thus,, etc.

d. The neuter, or also the feminine, of numeral compounds is often used substantively, with a collective or abstract value, and the accent is then regularly on the final syllable: see below, 1312.

1301. Possessive compounds having as prior member a noun which has a quasi-adjective value in qualifying the final member are very frequent, and show certain specialities of usage.

a. Least peculiar is a noun of material as prior member (hardly to be reckoned as possessive dependents, because the relation of material is not regularly expressed by a case: 295): thus, gold-handed,  with golden garlands,  having brazen supports,  of silver navel.

1302. Especially common is the use of a noun as prior member to qualify the other appositionally, or by way of equivalence (the occasional occurrence of determinatives of this character has been noticed above, 1280 d). These may conveniently be called appositional possessives. Their accent is that of the prior member, like the ordinary possessive descriptives.

a. Examples are: horse-winged, or having horses as wings (said of a chariot),  having the earth as house,  having Indra for friend,  having Agni as priest,  having a Gandharva for spouse,  having hero-sons,  having old age as mode of death, living till old age,  fire-clad,  ending with that,  using spies for eyes,  named Vishnuçarman; and, with pronoun instead of noun,  having thee as messenger,  having this for work. Exceptions in regard to accent occur here, as in the more regular descriptive formation: thus,, etc.

b. Not infrequently, a substantively used adjective is the final member in such a compound: thus, having Indra as chief,  having the mind as sixth,  of which soma is best,  of which the ace is highest (?),  having bone as the larger part, chiefly of bone,  chiefly composed of worthy persons,  having ten as the lowest number,  having meditation as highest object or occupation, devoted to meditation,  much addicted to sighing.

c. Certain words are of especial frequency in the compounds here described, and have in part won a peculiar application. Thus:

d. With beginning or  or  first are made compounds signifying the person or thing specified along with others, such a person or thing et cetera. For example, the gods having Indra as first, i. e. the gods Indra etc.,  Marīci and the other