dictionary of sanskrit grammar

o f words by the application of affixes
to crude bases. According to the
Padasamskara alternative, every
word is formed independently, and
after formation the words are syntactically
connected and used in a
sentence. The sense of the sentence
too, is understood after the sense of
every word has been understood;
cf. q^qw gjq: Sira,
on Pari. 22. According to the other
alternative viz. a whole
sentence is brought before the mind
and then the constituent individual
words are formed e.g. + g,
3i -f- | Both the views have got
some advantages and some defects ;
cf. Par. Sek. Pari. 56.
expression of the sense by the
whole word without any consideration
shown to its division into a base
and an affix. For instance, the word
means * by Rama ’ irrespective
of any consideration whether «f is
the affix or is the affix which
could be any of the two, or even one*
different from the tw o; cf. aqjqf:
*rP3RTfI'F3lcrai: Vakyapadlya
II. 240.
( 1 ) beginning of a word, the
first letter of a w ord; cf. gRq^rah P.
V III. 3 . i i t ; cf. also 313^1%
qgKt P. V III. a.6. Patanjali, for the
sake of argument, has only once explained
as