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like, in the same manner as (in this sense = यथा(yathā), and used correlatively to तथा(tathā))
(Can we date this quote?), The Buddha, Dhammapada(pāḷi) (subsequently translated from Pali to Sanskrit), Appamādavaɡɡa, page 32; republished in The Eighteenth Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Khuddaka-Nikāya, Colombo, 2009:
8. When the astute dispel negligence by means of diligence, having ascended the palace of wisdom, the sorrow-free then behold this generation of sorrow, as a wise man on a mountain-top beholds the fools below.
(literally, “8. When the astute dispel negligence by means of diligence, having ascended the palace of wisdom, the sorrow-free then behold this generation of sorrow, as a wise man on a mountain-top beholds the fools on the ground.”)
(Wiktionary translation adapted from translation of the Pali by Ajahn Sujato.)
(as a particle)connected vaguely, and somewhat pleonastically, with an interrogative pronoun or adverb
किम् इव ― kim iva ― what?
कथम् इव ― katham iva ― how could that possibly be?
क्वेव ― kveva ― where, I should like to know?
Usage notes
In the pada texts of the Rigveda, Yajurveda, and Atharvaveda, and by native grammarians, इव(iva) is considered to be enclitic, and therefore compounded with the word after which it stands.