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 $ 28-31. the masculine: ff. But when belonging to inanimate things or things and persons mixed, it is neuter. Kám. 1, 54 मृगया अक्षास्तथा पानं गर्हितानि महीभुंजामू; M. 4, 39 मृदङ्गं दैवतं विप्रं घृतं मधु चतुष्पथम् | प्रदक्षिणानि कुर्वीत. 2,69. Rem. If neuter words are mixed with words of other gender, Pân 1, it is allowed to put their common predicate or attribute in the neuter of the singulasr. Mrech. V पक्षविकलच पक्षी शुष्कञ्च तहः स जलहीनं । सर्पश्चोतदंष्ट्रस्तुल्यं लोके दरिद्र (the bird, whose wings are clipped, the leafless tree, the desiccated pool, the toothless snake are equal in the eyes of men, so the moneyless man). 20 c.) as to the person. In the case of difference, the first person outweighs the second and third, and the second precedes the third (see Pat. I, p. 352, cp. 240, n° 26, Kat. 3, 1, 4). Patanjali gives these examples त्वं च देवदत्त पचथः । अहं च देवदत्तश्च पचावः । त्वं चाहं च पचावः 29. The type Tiberius et Gaius Gracchi, linguae Latina et Graeca is also Sanskrit. Ch. Up. 5, 3, 2 पथोर्देवयानस्य पितृयापाम्य च. 30. Occasionally words connected by »with" are construed as if they were copulated by »and." R. 2, 34, 20 तं परिष्वज्य बाहुभ्यां तावुभौ रामलक्ष्मणौ । पर्यङ्के सीतया मार्थे रुदन्तः समवेशवनू Here the plural रुदन्तः समवेशयन् proves that सीतया सार्धम् has the same effect on the construction as सीता च. PREDICATE AND ATTRIBUTE. 31. The distinction between predicate and attribute ¹) is chiefly a logical one. Formally both follow the same rules of syntax, and it is but by the context partly also by the place it occupies in the sentence, 1) The term attribute" in this book is virtually the same as the term viceshana of Hindu grammariaus. It includes therefore the so called apposition," for I found no reason why I should retain the need- less distinction, which is often made between attribute and apposition. »