dictionary of sanskrit grammar

which is believed to have been
based upon words ( 'Rift srfifcr: W f:
BI) or which forms the basis of
words or word text or th e ' padapatha
( srfifer:); cf.
tf%rr Nir. 1.17.
lit. divisions of words: parts
of speech. There are four parts of
speech viz. and
Ffqin given by ancient grammarians
and the authors of the Pratisakhya
works, while there are given only
two, § srt and bv Panini. For
details see pp. 145, 146, Vol. VII.
Mahabhasya D. E. Society’s edition.
235
the learned commentary by
Haradatta on the Haradatta
was a very learned grammarian
of the Southern School, and the
Benares School of Grammarians
follow more than the equally
learned another commentary
ifn fw & fw rfe r or jqre. In the
Padamanjari, Haradatta is said to
have given everything of importance
from the Mahabhasya; cf
ft JTCivn^ or For details
. see Mahabhasya D. E. S. Ed. Vol.
v i i , p . 390-391-
a disquisition on grammar
dealing with the different
ways in which the sense of words is
conveyed. The work consists of a
running commentary on his -verses
by the author Gokulanatha MiSra
who, from internal evidence, appears
to have flourished before
Kondabhatta and after Kaiyata.
or view that words |
are real and have an existence and j
individualty of their own. The view
is advocated by the followers of
both the MImamsa schools and the
logicians who believe that words
I
i
have a real existence. Grammarians
. admit the view for practical purpose,
while they advocate that the
> sTQ^R^Wte alone is the real-sense,
cf. Vakyapadlya II.90 and the foil.
an operation prescribed in
connection with words ending with
case or verbal affixes and not in
connection with noun-bases or root-
bases or with single letters or syllables.
is in this way contrasted
with (including mffr-
and *rrgfff*r), aud
Such Padavidhis are given
in Panini’s grammar in Adhyaya 2,
Padas 1 and 2 as also in .VI. x. 158,
and in VIII.1.16 to VIII. 3.54 and
include rules in connection with
compounds, accents and euphonic
combinations. When, however, an
operation is prescribed for two or
more padas, it is necessary that the
two padas or words must be syntactically
connectible; cf.
P. II. 1.1.
’T^&TPT pause between two words
measuring two matras, or equal to
the time required for the utterance
of a long vowel; e.g. in cqlt ffT,
the pause between 5^ and is
measured by two matras; cf.
T. Pr. X X II. 13. Some Pratisakhya
texts declare that the pause
between two words is of one’ matra
as at avagraha; cf. R. Pr. II. 1 and
R. T. 35-38.
a metrical work on
the determination of the. pada or
padas of the roots attributed to
Vimalakirti.
a short gloss on
the written by
Udayaklrti, a Jain grammarian.
an alternative view with
MiwfoOTRj regarding the formation