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 § 13-14. Cha- the persons or things involved, are embodied into speech by the same or nearly the same grammatical appa- ratus, as serves that purpose in other languages. It is the relative frequency or rareness and the distribution of these instrumentalities of speech, which gives to Sanskrit style its proper and peculiar character, the main features of which may be sketched as follows: 14. Iy. Sanskrit, in comparison with western langua- racter ges, does not avail itself much of finite verbs. Hence abundance of gerunds, participles, absolute locatives, noun-predicates and a relative scarcity of subordinate sentences. Accumulating short coordinate phrases is likewise avoided by using gerunds. Daçak. 19 बालं शनैरव- निरुहातार्य बनान्तरे वनितामन्विष्याऽविलोक्यैनमानीय गुरवे निषेध निर्देशन Hola Frontain I took off the baby from the tree and sought for the fair one in the forest, but not discovering her I carried it to my teacher, and gave it over in his hands. By his order I now have brought the boy to you." of Sans- krit style. ry In Sanskrit style the predicate of the sentence is many times expressed by means of a nomen actionis, to be translated by a finite verb. Pane, 21 दमनका | स्वा मिन् किमिह निवृत्यावस्थानम् (Dam, said: why does my master stop and stay here?) ० IIly. Abstracts in or may be made of any noun either simple or compound. Since they are available in all noun-cases, they afford an easy expedient to bring a whole clause into a shape as concise as possible and to express logical relations in the very sharpest and most distinct way. Hence they are often employed in treatises, commentaries and similar works. A more detailed account of them will be given hereafter.