dictionary of sanskrit grammar

sfiTW, sisqjj, efernr, f ^ ,
9 RTH, 31# , sre^T and ?ffrr- See
Varttikas 39 to 44 on P. I. 4. x.
Later on, Bhojaraja In his Srngara-
Prakasa has quoted the definition
.s$c|5?t§o given by Panini, and has
given six subdivisions.; cf. ^WT-
^ tg ^ s t ife r a m e i:, 5rr%qrf^if& Sr.
Prak. I. page 6. For the sense conveyed
by a Pratipadika or nounbase,
see sirfttr^q'.
srrfetrf^^R. corresponding to 3?gf=fii4
in the case of the declinables,
which : the Sutrakara mentions
specifically with respect to the
noun-base.
sTifgqf^Ssjfoi express mention . by
wording of a noun-base as in
-feqfenfeio, ^ etc., and not
by description as in 3 ft ^
{ P. IV .1.9 5) or in a group of
words (n il); cf. srrfciT^Wfnt-
Par. Selc. Pari.. 71,
which recommends the feminine
r form of the base for an operation,
provided the base is specifically
- expressed and not merely described
. e.g. ,
=stiat*:, etc. .
the general accent of the
Pratipadika viz. the acute ( )
= for the. last vowel as given by the
Phit-^utra ftq: ( snfaqf§*KH ) - ^
- . 3=CRT: ; cf. also !
■ siVk: \ M. Bh. on. P. V I. 1.91
Vart. 7. ' ;
denoted sense of a Pratipadika
or a noun-base. Standard'
grammarians state that the denotation
of a pratipadika is five-old
viz.. H it, RSI, fef,. W ' and
The word HT# refers.to the causal
factor of denotation or srtf%f?rfJto
which is of four kiiids 51# , gw, fett
' and as noticed respectively in
276 srttereit^f
the words jfr:, §§:, and fic*r:.
The word 55? refers to the individual
object which sometimes is
directly denoted as in
while on some occasions it' is indirectly
denoted through the genus
or the general. notion as in *niW:
the gender, the number
and the case-relation are
the denotations of the case-termi-
nations, but sometimes'as they are
conveyed in the absence of a case-
affix as in the words qa, and
others, they are stated as the denoted
senses of the Pratipadika,
while the case-affixes are. said to
, indicate them ; cf. ?I
Vakyapadlya.
JJIIdtiw in inverse order, antithesis,
reverse sense; e.g. sr and t h mean
the reverse of 3?r, or jtRt means the
reverse of . s ift; cf. m I 9
etc. Nir. I.4.
Ulf?R11^ . a work on Vedic grammar
of a -specific . nature, which is
concerned mainly with the changes,
euphonic and others, in the Pada
text of the Samhita as compared
with the running text,.theSam hita
itself. The Pratisakhya works are
neither concerned with the sense of
words, nor with their division into
bases and affixes, nor with their
etymology. They contain, more or
less, Vedic passages arranged from
the point of view of Samdhi. In
the R k Pratisakhya, available
. to-day, topics of metre, recital,
phonetics and the like are introduc-
' ed, but it appears that originally
the IJ.k Pratisakhya, j ust like the
Atharva Pratisakhya, was concerned
with euphonic changes, the
other 'subjects being introduced
later on. The word shows
that there wereJ such treatises for