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§ 294. 223 singulars having a gender of their own, but they are also construed with the genitive. Yet, this construction is not used exclusively. By a false analogy side by side with the regular construction, as : A, TÅ fira: färía: guiù, JONĄ, , one says also faria: gufu, na gam instr. For ó, Nê QNM¶ or ¹, etc. The same applies of course to the compounds in fanfd:, Tö etc., expressive of the interjacent num- bers. It is a matter of course, that instead of using the genitive, it is allowed to compound the substantive with the noun of number. 1 ª Examples: 1. a) of a genitive depending on the noun of num- ber: Varah. Brh. 54, 75 Faxat (by 20 men); Ragh. 3, 69 zla fantut zafă zarfumi gerangai…... (thus the king performed 99 great sacrifices); R. 2, 54, 31 zi maî; Mhhh. 14, 88, 35 fram adlavni a m (300 animals were then fastened to the sacrificial piles); Kathâs. 18, 124 .... faguna an Daç. 142 - - gab) of compounding: Raj. 1, 311 a Col ta (after having reigned seventy years), M. 8, 237 : (a hundred bow-lengths), Kathâs. 44, 77 sunt (500 camels). 2. of Faf etc. concording in case with their substantives. R. 3, 14, 10 dk aug.... ufgled:, Gaut. 8, 8 fe

(purified by 40 sacraments), M. 3, 40 af g 4,

ibid. 4, 87 af.... forf, Kathâs. 10, 39 adda: în (we are 1000 granddaughters of the chief of Daityas, Bali); Mhbh. 1, 16, 8: calamızza gruada. - Higher numbers, as y, and, if, are sub- stantives, and always construed with the genitive of the object numbered. R. 1, 53, 21ùchi nai afra (I give a crore of cows); Pane.I, 251 A THỜI NGÀn đã đầu đang rất Tatu freata (designs of kings, that do not succeed by a đ I