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 § 221-222. 165 of a woman), here fag is the latter member, the former being a tatpurusha of comparison, the former member of which are is itself an ordinary shashthisamâsa. - Mhbh. 1, 155, 24 graurig- zady = glounging aray, here the former part of the tatpurusha is a bahuvrihi. - Kâm. 2, 43 funfacuan (one firmly attached to wordliness) is illustrative of the species of those, whose latter member is a compound, the analysis being uri faaug ada.. 3. BAHUVRIHI. 222. The difference between the tatpurusha and the ba- Nature and characte- huvrihi is an essential one. The former implies no more ristics of vribi. the babu. than is purported by its constituent elements, but the bahuvrihi always adds something tacitly understood, generally the conception of having, possessing." when tatpurusha = 3: „Indra's foe," when ba- huvrihi it means ,,having Indra for foe, one whose foe is Indra;" f;, when tatp. - Hur uf: „the colour of the sun," when bahuvr. it denotes ,one having the colour of the sun." The bahuvrîhi, therefore, is invariably an adjective, referring to some substantive ¹). Panini then is quite right, when he defines the bahu- vrîhi as a complex of elements serving to qualify some other word 2). " 1) By this it is however not asserted, that a bahuvrîhi cannot be used as a substantive, but only this: when used so, they are to be considered just as any other adjective, that does duty of a subst. when =»a noble-man" is to be compared with such a word as g: when meaning >an honest man” or : when >boy." 2) P. 2, 2, 23 sq. ff. According to that definition, Iudian grammar does by no means make restriction as to the number of the ele- ments out of which a bahuvrihi is made up. This is distinctly expressed in a metrical rule of the Kâtantra (2, 5, 9)