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 sages, those seven Manus, Svāyambhuva etc.,  the sacrifices Agnishtoma and so on. Or the qualified noun is omitted, as in food, drink, fuel, etc.,  let your honor practise liberality, religious rites, and the like. The particles and  are also sometimes used by substitution as prior members: thus,  words to this and the like effect;  hence I say "accumulation is ever to be made" etc.

e. Used in much the same way, but less often, is beginning: thus,  with the Gandharvas Viçvāvasu etc.; especially adverbially, in measurements of space and time, as  or  thenceforward.

f. Words meaning foregoer, predecessor, and the like — namely, — are often employed in a similar manner, and especially adverbially, but for the most part to denote accompaniment, rather than antecedence, of that which is designated by the prior member of the compound: e. g.  with a smile,  with inquiries after health,  accompanied by the Great Father.

g. The noun measure stands as final of a compound which is used adjectively or in the substantive neuter to signify a limit that is not exceeded, and obtains thus the virtual value of mere, only: thus,  living by water only (lit. by that which has water for its measure or limit),  by merely issuing from the womb,  let him be one possessing what does not exceed the preservation of life;  but the words being merely uttered.

h. The noun object, purpose is used at the end of a compound, in the adverbial accusative neuter, to signify for the sake of or the like: thus,  in order to the accomplishment of the sacrifice (lit. in a manner having the accomplishment of the sacrifice as its object),  for Damayantī's sake (with Damayantī as object).

i. Other examples are, in the sense of like, approaching: thus, gold-like,  nearly dead,  almost accomplished; — , in the sense of kind, sort: thus,  of thy sort,  of human kind; — , in the sense of mostly, often, and the like: thus,  full of pain,  abounding in grass,  often going out; —  (in substantive neuter), in the sense of other: thus,  another region (lit. that which has a difference of region),  other existences,  in another text.

1303. In appositional possessive compounds, the second member, if it designates a part of the body, sometimes logically signifies that part to which what is designated by the prior member belongs, that on or in which it is.