$80-81. 80. In the great majority of cases the destination purported Dat. of tion. the des by the dative, has an acceptation more or less figura- tina- tive. The different kinds of datives, which display this character, may be arranged in two distinct groups, viz I, the so-called dative of concern or interest, II, the dative of the purpose. The former has almost the same functions as the dative of modern european languages, the sphere of the latter is that of the dativus finalis in Latin. 59 Both are but varieties of the fundamental notion, as will be made plain by these examples, which contain some datives of the kind I and II, construed with the verb to go. I. Hitop. p. 42. ata for armà i quures và an affa: (the riches of the miser go neither to a god nor to a brahman, nor to his family nor to himself, because of fire, thieves, the king). II. R. 1, 46, 7 và a (after these words he set out to penance, viz, in order to do penance), Ven. II (p. 39) a razza (go to your business). I. The dative of concern denotes 81. the person or Dat. of thing concerned by the action, in whose behalf or against cern. whom it is done, or who is anyhow interested by it ¹). con- It is put 1.) to transitive verbs, as a.) those of giving and offering, b.) of showing, c.) of telling, speaking, announc- ing, promising, etc., d.) of doing or wishing good or evil, and the like, for expressing the so-called ,,remote object." Examples: a.) R. 2, 40, 14 areterpunta ad un Remote object. Panc. 173 g fangoy (the king's officer gave the money to Upabhuktadhana), Câk. III ufafana 3, Mrech. I (p. 21) Tecamat afe:; b.) Kathâs. 29, 32 (she presented her friend to her father); c.) Ch. Up. 3, — 1) Cp. P. 1, 4, 32 m and Patanjali on that sûtra I, 330.
