190 8 250-252. Kathas. 29, 113 4 Data ga: mafaga: (death is better for me than parting with my virtue); Pane. 213 aquapana anpufàam: (not beginning at all is better than ceasing after having commenced); ibid. I, 451 afuertsfat or feccion: (a wise foe is even preferable to a foolish friend ¹). 251. A high degree may be expressed also by several other idioms, ex- idiomatic phrases, as: Concorrent O pressive of a high de- gree. 1. by ), a, a, a, see 229, 5th inasmuch as they are a concurrent idiom of the comparative in one of its meanings: 2. by putting or before. Panc. I, 191 rà sofd - fà (slander being rather manifold in the world); R. 3, 53, 1 24 efeat qraf; Málav. I, p. 10 some female is said to be means »tolerably, nearly" see O qpufagon Funfact a. Properly P. 5, 3, 68, q exceedingly." 3. by such phrases as farfar (liter. »dearer than dear" = the very dearest), ; Mahâv. I, p. 21 fanfa: (we are exceedingly rejoiced at it); Panc. 326 ântana nf (247). 4. by putting the word twice, see 252. 5. by adding , see 229, 6th. O O 252. For different reasons a word may be put twice, either Putting a word twice. When put two times as a separate word, as :á, or when making up some kind of compound, as ¹¹). 1) In a well-known passage of the Hitop. (p. I, 3) ay is construed with but not followed by a nomin., as one might expect, but by the instrumental: affont quit gat a a per a D The instrum. must be that, which expresses: equivalent to; exchangeable for. Better is one virtuous son, and [>not to be given up for," that is] out- weighing even hundreds of stupid oncs; one moon dispels the darkness, out- weighing even crowds of stars." Op. 70. 2) gaffmey and the like are among the examples of the commen- taries on P. 5, 3, 67. Cp. 249. 3) Pâņini deals with this idiom at the commencement of his eighth
