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176. Can a word which assumes any of the inflections
of the Verb be an indeclinable?
No; hence, 'iṭṭu' (=having placed or been placed),*
'koṇṭu' (=having or being taken), 'véṇṭi' (=being re-
quired), 'kúṭi' (= having joined), 'paṭṭu' (= having suf-
fered), 'ennu' (=having said, 'áy' (=having been or
come into being) are not indeclinables, for they are
the adverbial past participles of the verbs 'iṭu', 'véṇṭu',
'kúṭu', 'paṭu' (=peṭu), 'en', 'áku'.
Similarly 'kúṭa' is the infinitive of the verb 'kúṭu',
'mélpeṭṭu' is the adverbial past participle of the verb
'melpeṭu' (= to be or go above); and so on.
177. Can any case be an indeclinable?
No; hence the instrumental 'munnále' the datives 'anné-
kku', 'varekku', the substituted-forms 'dúrattu', 'akattu'
and such like cannot be indeclinables.
178. How else may we discriminate between indeclina-
bles and words that are not indeclinables?
i.) The word which governs an accusative case is not
an indeclinable, but is a transitive verb, hence 'kon-
tŭ', 'višéshichchŭ' (=having excepted, except), 'póle' etc.
are not indeclinables, for we say 'Rámané koṇṭu', dévé
ndrané póle', 'lakshmanané višeshichchŭ'.
* This word when an auxiliary is often a mere expletive, and
may be left out when translating into English.
