§ 254-256. Sanskrit for bringing together words kindred in sound and playing with the different meanings inherent to them. Nearly all literary documents from the Vedas to our days afford the most ample evi- dence of it. For this reason, one must always be prepared to have to deal with riddles and the most various kinds of quibbles and puns. More information on this subject is to be given by works on Sanskrit rhetoric and Sanskrit literature. vords ya- khyam 255. It may be of some use to mention here the figure yathasam- Putting the khyam 1), as it is employed not rarely and as its nature should be called rather grammatical than rhetorical. By it a series of sub- stances named together with a series of attributes or predicates are so to be understood that the first substance is to be construed with the first predicate or attribute, the second with the second and so on successively. R. 3, 40, 12 er der er Personal ronouns. fama AC unafn er: (the kings possess the qualities of the five devas, Agni etc., viz. the glow [aushnya] of Agni, the strength [vikrama] of Indra, etc.), Âpast. Dh. 1, 5, 8 auch a gdal arar ago at ihrezacznęrinia- waff at =afch a ta curtafa aran at a are aqui at
- º #fufàquufà (whatsoever he, desirous to accomplish it, thinks
in his mind or pronounces in words or looks upon with his eye). CHAPT. II. Pronouns. 1. PERSONAL PRONOUNS AND THEIR POSSESSIVES. 256. The personal pronouns are less used, than in English and many other modern tongues, as they are often not expressed, especially when implied by the personal end- ings of the verb (10). Nor are their oblique cases always wanted in Sanskrit, when undispensable in English. So in this sentence Hit. 24 af, the word af noury afteachtallista anter" is at the same time ob- ject of, of, off; it is of course put once, but 193 3 . 1) I borrow that designation from P. 1, 3, 10, which s. may be compared. 13
