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 64 § 86-87. gya Upanishad (7, 5, 2), but in classic Sanskrit it is mostly a transitive, even when meaning to obey, Câk. IV TER d.) a dative with substantives, to denote the possessor, ep. En- glish »a son to me." Rgv. 1, 31, 2 fayfaya yana (ruler of the whole universe); Ch. Up. 4, 3, 6 paa (you at paa This con- have not given the food to him, to whom it belongs). struction has long subsisted in the case of the possessor being a personal pronoun, especially in epic poetry. Mhbh. 1, 51, 5 farl R. 1, 54, 11 instead of ; Mhbh. 1, 151, 39 gai à gufor: quæfa (Yudh. refuses me the permission of killing you), ibid. 1, 111, 14 ¿m̃ îæ, R. 1, 13, 4; 2, 32, 8, etc. a TY NB. In the brahmana-works it is sometimes impossible to de- cide whether a dative or a genitive has been employed. Both cases may formally coincide in the singular of the feminines in, ', '5 (3, 3). In the dialect of these books the gen. and abl. of the singular may end in , just as the dative does; f in the brahmana-works classic for ft. See KUEN, Zeitschr. XV, p. 420 eqq., AUFRECHT p. 428 of his edition of the Aitareyabrâh- maua. 87. II. The dative of the purpose or aim is of very fre- Dat. pur- pose. of the quent occurrence. It may be made use of always, if one wants to denote either the thing wished for or the action intended. Of the former kind are such datives as Cepat fa (he goes out for fruits), (wood for a sacrificial stake), Husollu f TVT (gold for a ring), Hitop. 95 surat sitamu. In the latter case the nomen actionis itself is put in the dative and has the power of an infinitive. Çak. I añáauna a: gà a your weapon serves to protect the afflicted, not to hurt the innocent). Here of two actions equally aimed at, one is expressed