sentences

Rig Veda had a much fuller use of

middle voice

tense - mood - aorist

inflected participles

infinitives

genuine prepositions

fewer

passive voice

indeclinable participles

absolute cases

adverbial prepositions

none

periphrastic

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word order

subject begins verb ends

viśa: kṣatriyāya balim haranti śb

peasants pay tribute to the prince

strongly emphasized first

prayājai: vai devās svargam lokam āyan śb

by means of the Prayājas the gods went to the heavenly world

predicative noun with the copula = verb

sarve ha vai devās agre sadṛśā āsu:

all the gods in the beginning were similar

mitras vai śivas devānām ts

mitra , indeed, is the kindly one among the gods

predicative noun , emphatic first word

martyā ha vā agre devās āsu: śb

the gods were originally mortals

acc. placed before verb

adverbs , indeclinable participles before verb

chandāmsi yuktāni devebhyas yajñam vahanti śb

the metres, when they are yoked, take the sacrifice to the gods

occasionally such words move to beginning

divi vai soma āsīd , atha iha devās sb

in heaven was Soma , but here the gods