CARNÁTACA LANGUAGE PARTICIPLES. The affirmative and negative participles in this language, always perform the office of adjectives before nouns or pronouns. The participles have also the power of relative pronouns inherent in them, with reference to the noun or proDoun which immediately follows; and the use of separate relative pronouus is, therefore, unnecessary. If an active participle be used after a nominative, the noun which follows the participle, in whatever case it may be, is the object affected by the activa: denoted by the participle ; as J N 773 May the cloth that I guve.. If an active participle be used after an accusative case, the noun which im. mediately follows the participle, in whatever case it may be, is the agent to the action denoted by the participle; as నిన్నన్నునాడి దమసుష్మను the man that saw you. If an active participle be used in a passive sense, the agent of the action precedes the participle in the instrumental case, and then the object which is affected by the action follows, and is considered as the nominative, in whatever case it may be; as సన్నిందమాడల్పట్టి శిలసవు the business that urus done by me. If the action denoted by the active participle refer to some instrument, place, or to some other subordinate correlative, the agent is placed first in the nomi native, then the object in the accusative case, then the participle, and finally thie instrument, place, or the other correlative, to which the action refers; as రామ సురావణనన్నురొందబాణవు the arrow with which Rima killed Ráduna. If a neuter or active participle that is not preceded by a noun, be followed by a noun, the noun which follows the participle, in whatever case it may be, is the agent to the action denoted by the participle; but the noun which follows: the active participle, sometimes also becomes the object affected by the action. denuted by such participle; thus a tu w 8 the horse that ran ;: W206 Digitized by Google
