171. 3aff. $ 170-171. 7 Rem. 2. is originally a feminine, meaning »origin, com- mencement" and like its synonym ; it is often used at the ends of bahuvrîhis (229, 1°). At the outset, therefore, such a term as fotosuff was said in the very same acceptation as acontenta, viz. meaning: fread. By the time, however, the noun ceased to be employed as a separate word, and one commenced to look upon the adverbial compounds, ending in af, as if they were ending in some preposition, meaning since." By this mistake it happened that assumed even the character of a self-existent particle construed with ablative, by analogy of and the like. Hence f. i. the compound presents an older idiom than : ERT since his birth” (M. 8, 90) re- f. In such turns as (since then), f (since when), f, the true nominal nature of mf is plain, and it is again a misunderstanding to write them as two words i fa etc. 124 " [10] 3 (above, over, on, upon) is the very op- posite of T, see 163. As a rule, it is construed with preceding genitive ¹), unless it makes up the latter part of a compound: tan or adgan. Its employment is Tar various, as it is used a.) of space, b.) of time upon immediately after," c.) of rank, d.) - »on, upon, about, concerning, with respect to," then 34f is concurrent with gf and with the nimittasaptamî, e.) — »before, under the eyes of" Examples: a.) Kâç. on P. 8, 1, 7 af farat ac urafa (he carries a jar upon his head), Panc. 125 luft famafer, Kathås, 25, 228IOS ESTUUTARE..., Pane. 112 taraft TT (moved by anger he made a bolt at him). - Metaphorically f. i. Panc. I, 166 Zmagaff eachalgut fafara: etc, »the king lives on his dominions, physicians on the sick," R. 3, 54, 23 ntent 1) So it is taught by Panini, as must be inferred by comparing P. 2, 3, 30 with 5, 3, 27-34.
