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 297. P § 297-299. 298. af- ter car- teness of the number. So dinals and af. 299. Nouns 225 Note the use of the words and say, or face and 4 = »couple" and triad;" tetrad" is age. They are often the last members of compounds. M. 2, 76 à (the three Vedas), Utt. III, p. 37 da: gfaufa aðed axan apa a. Putting after a cardinal expresses the comple- both of them," ä " all three of them." One says even asfa, etc. = all of them." Bhoj. 91: sau adraft af- ma. Cardinals may often be the latter members of com- ofnum-pounds, see 294 and 296. ber, being up with their bers of com- pounds. When former members, they may make me latter members the so-called dvigus. This term is ap- plied to two different kinds of compounds, viz. 1. the collective compounds, made up of a cardinal + a noun subst., and employed in a collective sense; they must be of the neuter gender, as (juncture of four as roads), but themes in may be feminines in Ficiona well as neuters in, as or it (the three worlds); 2 compound adjectives, which rank with the bahuvrihis, but the notion inherent to which is not that of possession," but some other. So the word faitself, meaning „bought for [having the value of] two cows." Ait. Br. 1, 1, 6 geamum: gjera: (a cake dressed on eight plates). Beside this special use, the cardinals may be parts of the general tatpurushas and bahuvrihis, especially the latter. Such bahuvrîhis as 2: (having ten faces), fa: (with twenty arms), are, in practice, by lă P. 2, 1, 23 P. 2, 1, 52.