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 96 $ 128-129. here, but you have not noticed her), Pane. 303 fá fa MET, Utt. IV, p. 72; R. 3, 50, 20¹). DATIVE-LIKE GENITIVE. 129. V. The genitive serves also to denote him, who is Dative- concerned by the action or fact, the so-called remote object. like ge- nitive or geni- This kind of genitive, as it stands on the same tivus ground as the dative, I name dative-like genitive. COMMO- diet in Partly it may be substituted to the dative, but in a com- modi. great number of cases the dative would even be unavai- lable, at least in classic Sanskrit, especially, if the person concerned is to be expressed in such sentences, as where the predicate is nominal (substantive or adjective). In such turns as Kathas. 29, 98 317 & Frydi qid- (for virtuous wives the only path to follow here and hereafter is their husband), Panc. II, 58 atsidary: audai fni adaladıyıAGAT: afarni z uş: fava (what is too heavy for the vigorous? what danger does exist for the audacious? what is a foreign country for the learned? who is unat- tainable for the flatterer?) the genitive is the regular idiom, and the dative out of use. Likewise the genitive not the dative is to be employed, with adjec- tives of friendship and enmity fitness and unfitness, good and evil etc., as Panc. 331 TÍ Hal fany (a fish-dinner is always welcome to him), ibid. 213 T: (it does not suit you). — - 1) This idiom extends also to adjectives, used as participles. Utt. III, p. 57 ar g sant atea: affory: (it is now the twelfth year, destitute of its queen). that the world is