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 3 ī I E 1 § 206-207. 149 Dvandvas »brother and sister," »son and daughter" are not used, P. 2, 1, 68. here, are of necessity. Op. Latin soceri = socer et socrus, fratres frater et soror. Rem. 4. As to the order, to be followed in putting together 32-34. OI 3; 3 the links of a dvandva, fixed rules cannot be given. Yet it is P.2,2, common to put at the head either the themes ending in or those commencing by a vowel while ending in, or the shortest. 207. Besides its most common duty of expressing coordi Its signi. nation, the dvandva is also available, if „and" connects icance. persons or things standing in mutual relation with one another. Another species is the distributive dvandva. Examples of the dvand va of relationship. R. 3, 27, 10 évetzenyot pasarde smartnafarì: fiegauna (then a wild battle began between Râma aud Triçiras, both of extraor- dinary strength, as if between a lion and an elephant), Mâlav. I, p. 21 wahan; fond on a augvoculiferanu (forsooth, there is as great a difference between you and me, as there is between a pond and the ocean), Harshac. 5 fartent à qundaliana - - fa: (and like water and fire, so righteousness and anger, [when meeting] at the same place, by their proper nature combat each other). 1 44- Examples of distributive dvandva. Mâlav. V, p. 137 - santalon forengan f fanatit gintountar uniaa (let them rule severally the banks of the Varadá, one the northern bank, but the other the southern, as moon and sun share their sway over night and day); Mudr. I, p. 19 fail à ustaff a fafa (I have bestowed the double fruit of my wrath and my affection on foe and friend); Kathâs. 25, 229: Açokadatta by his utmost bravery has conquered a golden lotus and presents it to the king his master, who puts the precious flower in a silver vase; on that account the poet makes this comparison 3 I - fun and it ich au: (and both the vase and the flower shone, one white, the other red, as if they were that splendour and that glory combined, which adorned one the king, the other Açokadatta).