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 $ 294-296. thousand elephants nor by a hundred thousand horse, are successful by one stronghold). Rem. 1. The double construction of fama etc. is as old as the Rgveda. Cp. f. i. Bgv. 2, 18, 5 auffant eff: with Rgv. 5, 18, 5 à à cara qualan. Rem. 2. In epic poetry one meets occasionally with a plural of the decads instead of the singular. Nala 26, 2 a: (with fifty horses) instead of qru. On the other hand, a singular of the substantive construed with and a occurs now and then, as Hariv. 1823 Stri gầm tem [instead of f: org], Bhåg. Pur. 4, 29, 24 f 4). 295. Multiples of f and the rest are denoted by putting them in the plural. R. 2, 31, 22 añìacar fortunaruí agen-fquafa (the princess Kausalyâ might entertain even thousands of men such as I am) '); R 3, 53, 24 fedi da argenfu ad (by whom fourteen thousand Râxasas have been killed); M. 11, 221 futai fret sitt….…... (eating in a month 3 × 80 balls); Mhbh. 13, 103, 14 i ³); Panc. 253 ugarfa (even by hundreds of endeavours); Mhbh. 9, 8, 41 ans (and ten thousand horse); Kathas. 35, 96 da manda faa..... 296. Numbers, given approximately, are expressed by such compounds as : (nearly twenty), (not far from thirty), 34: (almost ten), 224 17 M: (more than forty). Two or three" is fatfu, three or four" Grant, five or six" Comp. Dac. 94 the compound adverb aga »twice, three-, four times." I -2 1) Another singular idioma occurs R. 1, 18, 8: (the six seasons passed), as if a meant sa hexad," not usix." Cp. Verz. der Berliner Sanskrithandschriften, nº. 834. 2) aga is masc, or neuter. See the gaṇa 3) An irregular plural is Kam. 15, 11 afegant finstead of either fead or af ganā. P. 2, 2, on P. 2. 4, 31. mai affenfuments: