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# A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c19.57

A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c19.57

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### [v3.c19.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.beames-1872.v3.c19.57)

In this sentence I do not think we should regard the adjectives as used adverbially; \*lukū̃\* "winds," is a noun in the nom. pl. fem. and \*kosiū̃\* "hot" agrees with it, so also \*ḍōh\* “days,” is nom. sing. masc. and द्रढ “fierce, excessive” (Skr. दृढ), agrees with it; so that we might more literally translate, “the hot winds strike, the fierce days burn.”

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