578 GRAY. 



how then shall that Druj be combated, who pounceth from the 

 dead onto the living, how then shall [that Nasu be combated, 

 who mingleth from the dead onto the living ? ' 



(Note the variant reading apavaiti Mf. 2. for apivataitc.) 



b. Aorist tense in the Protasis and Present tense in the Apodosis. 



I. The Protasis is introduced by the general 

 relative ya : — 



ys. 46. lo (GAv. verse) : 



jj/J vd moi nd Z9?id vd mazdd aMird 

 ddydt ai^hsus yd tu voistd vaJiistd . . . 

 fro tdis vispdis cinvato frafrd pdrBtum. 



' whosoever, either man or woman, should give me in this 

 world what thou, O Mazda Ahura, dost deem best, . . . forth 

 with them all I shall come unto the Cinvat-bridge.' 



The conditional sentence containing the Optative in the Pro- 

 tasis and the Subjunctive in the Apodosis is not absolutely un- 

 known to the Sanskrit, although examples are very rare.- As a 

 possible instance we may cite Rv. 8. 40.1 : 



indrdgnJ yiivdn'i sit nah sdhahta ddsatJio rayiih 

 ycna drllia sanidtsva vilii cit sahisinidhi. 



' Indra and Agni, mighty ones, ye shall give wealth to us, 

 whereby (= if by it?) we should gain what is fixed and fast.' 



II. Ideal Conditions in the Past — Unfulfilled Conditions. 

 a. Optative in both Clauses. 



a. The Present Tcnse^.in both Clauses. 

 I. The Protasis is introduced hy yeoi\- 

 yt. 8. 52-54 (yAv. prose and verse) : 



yeoi zi azjni noil daidyqni spitania zarad^nstra aoni stdrjni yim 

 tistr'un . . . 



haniahe zl me ioa ayqn lianiayh vd xsapo 

 xa pairika yd dnzydirya 

 vispaJie a)^h3us astvato 



