dictionary of sanskrit grammar

^ ^ 1 3 a denominative root; the term
§=«rt§ is also used for. wmtg; cf.
Nyasa on P. VI.
1.3. See the word wig.
'TW^. noun, substantive; one r of the
four categories of words given in
the Nirukta and other ancient
grammar works; cf. =#nft’RSfRTTR
3t w n f flTO’TR'tMSJ, Nir. 1. 1. The
word is defined as amifa
by standard grammarians ; cf. Mir.
I . 1.; cf. "also SvriftwMi R. Pr.
X III. 8 ; V. Pr. V III. 49 and com.
thereon. Panini divides words into
two categories only,; viz.
and and includes fJW^, arc#
and (^qRrfunder sprt. The Srngara-
prakaSa defines as foliows-
5TWIM ijnw fsf^rrft 13ri%f§5sfifj{ sjqr-
ffgfelira ^ 1 The word at the
end of a sasfhi-tatpurusa compound
signifies a name or Samjna e.g. g fcf.
also
Bhasa-vrtti on tffrar P.
II. 4.20 and gfrat i | o P. III. 2.46
where the author oi the work explains
the word as «n%. The
C word is used in the sense of ' a
collection of words ’ in the Nifukta,
cf. snremreift,
etc.
•nJJTOra’n a work for the oral recital
of nominal words'; It may have
been of the nature of a lexicon.
Such works are refused to by
KaSika ; 1% 5T*TT WTg»IIJTOKR0IT-
% i f?srsfo