112 A GRAMMAR OF THE
തുടങ്ങിയുള്ള is used in the same way; as,
ദിവാനിജി തുടങ്ങിയുള്ള ഉദ്യൊഗസ്ഥന്മാരുടെ ദുരാഗ്രഹം
കൊണ്ട ജനങ്ങൾ നശിച്ച പൊകുന്നു.
On account of the avarice of the Dewan and other officers the people
perish. See the note.30
DATIVE CASE.
145. This case in Malayalim is used thus,
1st. To express the object to which the action is directed; and when
in this sense the dative follows the accusative case of a noun, or verbs im-
plying purpose or design, വെണ്ടി or ആയിട്ട is often affixed to the
dative; as,
അവൻ അവരുടെ വെലെക്ക അവരെ ഒരുക്കി.
He prepared them for their work.
അവൻ പറഞ്ഞ പ്രകാരം നിനക്ക വെണ്ടി അത ചെയ്തു.
He did it for you according to his word.
ഞാൻ നിന്റെ ഗുണത്തിനായിട്ട ഇവിടെ വന്നു.
I came here for your benefit.
അവൎക്കായിട്ട അവൻ ഇത ചെയ്തു.
He did this on their behalf.
ൟ കാൎയ്യം ചെയ്താൽ നിനക്കും ഇനിക്കും ഉപകാരമായിട്ട
തീരും.
If you do this thing it will turn out for our mutual benefit.
2nd. Words signifying pleasure, displeasure, need, danger, equality,
suitability, benefit, opposition, nearness, passions of the mind, or the
bodily senses, require a dative; as,
ഇത ഇനിക്ക ഇമ്പമുള്ളതാകുന്നു.
This is pleasant to me.
30 Great care and discrimination are required in translating the English
genitive case, as in numerous instances the corresponding Malayalim
words require to be put in other cases; as will be seen in reading through
the Syntax. In fact, except with some particles which always require
the genitive case of a noun, this case, as old native writings prove, was
not formerly in much use: the idiom of the language requiring the
dative; as not എന്റെത, but ഇനിക്കുള്ളത, mine.
