§ 301-302. elephants, lit. a hundred + a fourth of it), R. 2, 39, 36 m&agstar: half seven-hundred women, that is 350. Ráj. 1, 286 ABLET faud atet aufortal (~ reigned 45 years -). Such num- bers as 1, 2 etc. are signified by the compounds , etc., that are adjectives and bahuvrihis, literally meaning »the second, third etc. being [but] half" 1). M. 4, 95 Traian Anfant sege (for 4 month a brahman must study the vedic texts). »One and a half" is also [literally = »with a half more"], as re- marks. = 150. Rem. How the interest of money is denoted, may appear from this passage of Manu (8, 142): fai fac ago a com a va ka at nanga: (he may take 2, 3, 4 and 5% a month according to the caste). 302. By being repeated, cardinals or ordinals acquire a Other distributive meaning, see 252, 3°. Panc. 191 afger: = sf (every fifth 227 per ternos speculatores, Vâr. Yog, 2, 35 day). The same duty may be done by adverbs in , especially by sem, ana!, aga »by hundreds, by thousands," also »in hundred, thousand ways, manifold", TTT: (by crowds¹, f. i. Çat. Br. 14, 4, 2, 24, etc. The proper employment of the adverbs in IT is to in- dicate a real division of a whole into so and so many parts. M. 7, 173 far arr (divided his forces in two parts), Kathas. 106, 133 à un ut faff ( into a hundred pieces). 1 Our adjectives in-fold, etc. are represented in Sans- krit by compounds in see the dictionary as FUT (twofold, double), , , SIM, } The standard of comparison is here of course put in the ablative, ep. 106 R. 2. —— 11 1) On this subject see the disputation of Patanjali I, p. 426 who, as is often the case, rather obscures than illustrates the subject which he treats.
