b) double: ནང་ ‘is (he) within or not?’; བདག་ ‘is it agreeable (to you i.e. do you consent) to give me (your son) or not?’; ང་ ‘are you sorry at my arrival, or what (else) is the matter (with you—because you weep)?’.
3. Imperative and Optative or Precative sentences do not require any additional remarks besides what is said in [38].
51. Compound Sentences. After having examined in [41] the different gerunds as the constituent parts of compound sentences, a few examples will suffice for illustration.
1. Compound sentences, for the most part coordinative: རྒྱལ་[1]། བཟང་[2]ལ་[[84]]ཆད་[3]། བྲེ་[4]། མི་[5]༎ ‘The king having given a law, the good were given rewards, the bad punished, measures and weights arranged, and people taught letters (i.e. reading and writing)’.
2. subordinate sentences: དེར་[6]བུད་[7]བུ་[8]མཁས་[9]འདི་[10]བསྒོའོ། །ཁྱོད་[11]གང་[12]བུ་[13]ཅེས་[14]། བུའི་[15]བུ་[16]སྣད་[17]མི་[18]དྲངས་[19]དྲག་[20][[85]]མ་[21]དྲངས་[22]ཀྱི་[23]། དྲང་[24]སྨྲོས་[25]ཅེས་[26]བུ་ ‘There being certain two women quarrelling about one boy, the king (being) wise of understanding having examined (the case) thus ordered: You two, having seized from each (side) a hand of the boy, pull, and who gets him, (she) may carry him off.—When he had so spoken, she who was not the boy’s mother, because she had no compassion for the boy, not fearing (she might) hurt (him), pulled with what force she had. She who (in truth) was the boy’s mother, because she had compassion with the boy, fearing (she might) hurt (him), though she was able by force, did not pull hard. The king said to her who had pulled hard: “Because this, not being your son, is the other woman’s son, say (it) outright”. When he had so spoken, as he had turned out to be the son of the gentle puller, (she) carried off the boy’. [[86]]
[1] འཆའ་, perf. བཅའ་ ‘to make’ esp. ‘institute, [[84]]arrange’; gerund. [↑]
[3] ‘to cut’, but ཆད་ (or པས་) གཅོད་ ‘to inflict a punishment’. [↑]