18. Poeti- cal. § 17-18. commence a new sentence or a new clause at the word, which relates to somebody or something mentioned in the foregoing. Hence demonstratives often head the sen- tence. Panc. 37 वस्ति कस्मिंश्चिद्विविक्कप्रदेशे मठायतनं । तत्र - affensich: प्रतिवसति स्म । तस्य महतो वितमात्रा संजाता । ततः स न कस्यचिद्विश्वसिति- Rem. In general, the manner in which sentences are linked together may be of some influence on the arrangement of words. So the type, represented by Hit 110 राजा सर्वान्शिष्टांनाहूय मन्त्रयितुसु- पविष्टः । ॠाह च तानू [instead of तश्चा], often occurs, especially in polished style. Cp. f. i. Dag. 139 प्रहंच.... विषं क्षणादस्तम्भयम् । अयतच्च स भूमौ, Harsha 11 मर्त्यलोकमतरतू । श्रपश्यच. On the other hand similar reasons may expel the verb from its place at the rear, substituting for it some other word, required there by economy of style, because the end of a sentence is also fit to give some emphasis to the word placed there. Ratn. III ffer innan af (in you there is nothing we may not look for), Daç. 97 न चेञ्चोरितकानि प्रत्यर्पयति दूक्षयसि पारमष्टादशानी कारणानामन्ते च मृत्युमुखम् (if you do not restore to the citizens what you have stolen of them, you will know by experience the succession of the eighteen tortures, and at last the mouth of death); Kam. I, p. 292 राजपुत्रि किं ब्रवीमि वागेव मे नाभिधेयविषयमवतरति त्रपया. There is much freedom, where to put the negations, as will be shown in the chapter, which treats of them. Sanskrit poets, especially in the more artificial and refined kinds, display a still greater variety in arrang- ing the parts of the sentence. We may account for it partly by the exigencies of versification, but for a good deal it is the effect of their aspiring after an ele- gant and exquisite diction. Yet, as deviation from the traditional order of words is not striven at for itself, the idiom of the poets is rather characterized by the 12 13
