dictionary of sanskrit grammar

a short gloss on the
difficult passages of Siddhanta-
kaumud! of Bhattoji Diksita, by
Indradatta.
a commentary on Ratria-
candra’s Prakriya Kaumudi by
KrsnaSesa of the famous Sesa
family of grammarians. The date
of this KrsnaSesa is the middle of
the sixteenth century. For details
about Krsnasesa and the Sesa
family see introduction to Prakriya-
kaumudi B.S.S. No. 78.
acommentray (lf%) on ahe
sutras of Panini by Sadasiva MiSra
/ who lived in the seventeenth
century,
J|3 I8}JraT5r a commentary on the
Laghuiabdendusekhara by M. M.
Vasudeva Shastii Abhyankar
{ 1863-1942).
name of the gloss on the
Tattvabodhini written by Nila~
kanthavajapeyin, a pupil of
Jnanendrasarasvati.
a class of words headed by
the word Jjfg to which the taddhita
affix icq ( 5s0 is affixed in the sense
of ‘ an offspring ’ ( 3?q?j); e.g. nti^j:,
fl%q: etc:; cf. Kas. on P. IV. 1. 136.
included; cf. ^
Kas. on P. III. 2.178.
a grammarian whose view in
connection with the correctness of
the expression %frpra -nt P. IV, 1.105.
affix in the sense of cf.
qajitr JTfrsfim: snjftRr e- m:
M.Bh. on IV. 1.93.
lit. inhabitant of Gonarda
which was the name of a district
in the province of Oudh in ihe days
of the Mahabhasyakara according
to some scholars. Others believe
that Gonarda was the name of the
district named Gonda at present.
The expression snf occurs
four times in the Mahabhasya where
it refers to a scholar of grammar in
Patanjali’s tim e ;,cf. M.Bh. on I.
1.2 1; I. 1.29; III. 1.92; V II. 2
io r. As Kaiyata paraphrases the
words as
scholars say that ntasfa was the
name taken by the Mahabhasyakara
himself who was a resident of
Gonarda. Hari Diksita, however,
holds that qfaHcfa was the term used
for the author of the V arttikas; cf.
Brhacchabdaratna.
a class of eight wards headed
by the word JTtfqjf, the taddhita
affix in the sense of jt)5} ( i. e. a
descendant excepting a son or a
daughter) such as the affix qs*. or
3^ after which, is not elided in the
plural number ; e. g. %£Ri:;
e tc .; cf. Kas. on P. II. 4.67.
sifaT® ( ^5 ) known more by the nickname
of or who lived
in the eighteenth century and wrote
several commentary works on well-