Sanskrit syntax

📙 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...expresses not only the „ highest" but Superlative. also a „very high" degree, just as in Latin and Greek. MlNtf may be sometimes = very bad, sometimes = the worst. When denoting the highest degree, there is ge--1 nerally some word added, as fpTTT1?, Fl l'-ti etc. Mhbh. 1,143,3 Wm grTRiTUftJT?TIfr Jf% (this great assembly is the most pleasing on earth). But for the rest it signifies excellency among three or more, the comparative being destined for denoting it between two. Of two brothers one is the s'JMM, the other '-tVlNM' of more one the ST%', another the TFTt?":. 246. Yot carelessness in the employment of comparative and superCareless-ativc js not rRro,„ Sanskrit.') Sometimes the comparative is used nes in their cm-instead of the superlative Pat. I, p. 77?prT frfTJ 57v JjJrl. 'Jil" ploymcnt. %mwj qyjjfr Sjj r U..'1'J I Pi (d--instead of it.tliy.. Pane. I, 408 it is said that of the shadgunya the danda is the worst expedient, hero wo find not rrrfrr:, ibid. p. 305 among four individuals one is said the rSTT: ) Sometimes again the supcrlativo is used instead of the comparative. Kathas. 43, 23 of two brothers one calls himself grpry» and his brother 5777. Pane. 113 icjiumif'MT'-hH'Wl fa Pimm: (a mischief of either king or minister). Cp. ibid. V, 36 ferrcrt npn (judgment is better than learning), here the superl. is of necessity, as tho comp. sw doos not purport the meaning of cxcelloncy. For a different reason rrjjrr a superl. as to its form, is the equivalent of both »first" and »former." So f. i. Mai a v. II, p. 35-.irrnrpanrawt: Vhtq trur cpitjf SfWP7: (of whom of these two honourable professors shall wo see tho performance the first P). 247. The suffixes "fjj-and nq may be put even to s...