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 178 § 231-232. whole or any part of it. But on the other hand nothing compels him to do so. The qualifying noun may as well be a self-existent word having its own nóun- case. ¹) So Çak. V tadi minyauennuasnya: (dwelling in the forests on the slope of mount Himavân), here : stands outside the com- pound as to its form, but belongs to it by its meaning, as it qualifies the member 34. Pane. 42 a weaver returns home to his wife, an: garant idiom. having heard evil report on her account;" when using a mere analytical expression, the author of the Pancatantra would have said na at or en wat etc., when a mere syn- thetical one guate but he has here availed himself of a mixed Mâlav. V, p. 140 ny: dàu sangans: (S., who had the horse brought back by his grand-son); Kumâras. I, 37 atat l- ..... [], here a qualifies the former member of the compound; Mahav. I, p. 6 aquactation onları, here uchrat also is intimately connected with the compound. These few examples will suffice, as the idiom is met with on almost every page of Sanskrit. 1 232. By this equivalence, and to a certain extent also, promiscuous - ness of analytical and synthetical expression it is also explained that there must be some freedom in using the so called figure of ellipsis even in compounds. Nala 1, 13 the beauty of Damayanti is said to surpass that of all other women, even of time past, ..... angevant enfan.... gegaan, here is of course = yan By a similar abridgment Malâv. V, p. 137 moon and sun are named tuff the hot and the cold-rayed )." un 1) I wonder, what reasona may have induced WHITNEY (§ 1316) to speak of this idiom as something irregular. On the contrary, nothing can be more regular. 2) A atriking example is afforded by R. 3, 20, 12, if I am right reading there are at: catura: det att 1