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Sal. 15, ^ erf# ‘ I have not the power.’ 
Sal. 16, t^T, ‘ whose son ?’ 
Sal. 20, ^3X3; ‘ m y profession will be damaged.’ 
B. direct genitives governed by an accusative in the form of the nomi¬ 
native. 
Sal. 5, ^f*T, ‘ hearing whose weeping.’ 
Sal. 7, viWK ^T^^r(T^), ‘ whose beduU you have brought.’ 
Sal. 8, ^q«T ‘ take your beduli. ’ 
Sal. 16, <T^ f%f% ‘ having written a bond of that.’ 
Sal. 18, ^ ^Til^r 5JT^j, * go to your house.’ 
Sal. 20, ^w(*f ‘ he went to fetch his brother.’ 
Sal. 20, ^'ORr ^ ‘ bind your enemy.’ 
C. direct genitives governed by a noun in an oblique case, —rare, but 
permissible. 
Sal. 1, ‘ for the sake of him.’ 
Sal. 10, 35?T3? ^Teff #, ‘ from his call.’ 
Sal. 17, ‘ of (my) own chastity.’ 
According to Babu S'ri Narayan Singh, the direct form is admissible, 
wherever the oblique form is usually employed, but not vice versa. Thus 
the following pairs are equally correct. 
admissible. 
(1) qrrc^r 
(2) surar # 
(3) q^T C 
(4) ^xq»r 
(5) qimq i|Tf T 
usual. 
— ^TT^’ST 
— € 
— q^yT 3x 
— qfqqr ^srffRr 
— ^fq«fT 
"Where, however, the governing noun is in the nominative or in the 
accusative in the form of the nominative, the oblique form can never be 
used. The following therefore are wrong. 
JfTT^rq Xgf#T, rl^T qiqrTK ^q*TT 3x1 WCT 
The phrase 'qxxTT «rfNf is, however, correct, but then is the 
dative of possession, ‘ to me there is no power.’ 
D. Broyer oblique genitives governed by nouns in oblique cases. 
Governed by, 
Instr. Sal. 1, 2, 3, ^qrT 3vK3T, ‘ for the sake of him’ (cf. C.) 
Gen. Sal. 21, ^q*TT #T^T, ‘ the horse of his own riding,’ ‘his 
own riding horse.’ 
