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she suddenly disappeare), Dag. 95 masat……………. agad mammal: ga: ga: aurreafunganyakan akan P. 8, 1, 4. 3. Moreover, putting a word twice is also often a proper means for signifying a distributive sense (vipsa). Instances of this idiom are frequent. Käç. on P. 8. 1, 4 gra: gra: favzgûfa (every man is mortal), Pane, 42 ¶ ¶- (stumbl- ing at every footstep), Daç. 99 fa un (offer- ing [her] always new presents day after day), ibid. 216 quyà avanà fa-chon affraction (every sixth month they lose one single feather); R. 2, 91, 53 an (singulos viros septenac vel octonae mulieres appetierunt), Âpast. Dh. 1, 13, 18 dara? ciare? at a few, M. 2, 20 man af f (they must learn every one his own duty). So far f á (in every region), : (day after day) and so on. This idiom is as old as the Vaidik dialect. It is also used of gerunds. Pat. I, p. 44 wuscht sigengra meefni. Here as a rule the case-endings of the former member remain. 253. Sanskrit likes juxtaposition of different grammatical The type forms of the same word or of kindred words. Hence manus ma- num lauat the type manus manum lavat is of course very common and the like. in Sanskrit. Mṛcch. I, p. 34 (pearls string with pearls), Vikram. II, p. 31 den andra atay; Pat. I, p. 233 ar auf (one cloth covers the other), Panc. 322 alan (he rambles from forest to forest), ibid. 267 ◄ unfa, Daç. 61 aftu: affumaga (jumping from one elephant's back on another). 254. Of a somewhat different nature is the type represented by R. 2, 12,8 f and (what evil has Rama done to you, evil-minded woman?); op. the Greek xxxò xxx anÓZOITO. Here the inclination towards homophony is still more pronounced than in the idiom of 258. Compare Mhbh. 1, 145, 14 immanca: ante fening seen ain: 3 (tristes tristis est allocutus oives); Kathas. oneranda I 38, 153 ........ It is here not the place to expatiate upon this predilection of