dictionary of sanskrit grammar

ation or injunction ( f%f%) which
forms a specific feature of the grammar
of 3TR&53, viz. that the vowels
%, 3, 5ft, and remain without
phonetical combination and a shortening
of them, if they are long ; cf.
SJfitSBSR P. V I. 1.127 ;
3IRS*R*l & 1; cf. also M. Bh.
on P. VI. 1.77, V I. 1.125, VI. 1.27;
VI. 2.52, V II. 3.3 and V III. 2.108;
( 2) pupils of cf. 3 rai:
■aarcsn: M .B h. on P. IV. x.xS; (3 )
a village in the Vahlka district; cf.
flW *flH m itw n : M. Bh. on IV.
2.104 Vart. 3.
absence of a phonetic
coalescence ( ) as specifically
mentioned by See ^iiw .
prohibition of the
coalescence of any of the vowels
3, iff and ES with any dissimilar
vowel following it. See 5^ *55.
name of an ancient grammarian
and Vedic scholar who is
supposed to have revised the Vedic
texts and written their Pada-patha.
He is often quoted by Panini and
the writers of the PratiSakhya
w orks; cf. M.
Bh. on P. I. 4.84; also on P. I.1.18.
IV. 1.18 ; cf. also
srrwtf 1R- Pr. X III.12
tjllfiR tad. affix (originally a word
formed from W'tt by affixing 5J as
given in M. Bh. on P. V. 2.100),
applied to the word ?§ in the sense
of a field producing i t ; e.g. fg-
3nf%^-; cf. *n3f P *ma-
SUftw Ka§. on P. V. 2*29.
389
a class of words headed by the
word which have the taddhita
affi-g q added to them in the sense
of ^ i.e. similarity; e.g. STUr?:,
etc. cf. KaS. on P. V.
3. 103-
( 1 ) krt affix ( 3TR) substituted
for the Atmanepada affixes, to
which ^ is prefixed if the base
before the affix ends in sr; e.g. w -
flR, %m?T, etc. ;cf. P. III. 2. 124,
125, 126 ; ( 2) Vikarana affix (sjiif)
substituted for before the perso-
- nal ending % of the imperative
second person singular, if the
preceding root ends in a consonant;
e.g. 3TO, g^m, cf. P. III. 1.83.
STFfs^ krt affix (arra) substituted for
the Atmanepada affixes insted of
SlWg,, prescribed after the roots ^
and the application of for
STW^is for the acute accent on the
initial vowel of the root; e.g.
with the acute accent on the initial
vowel as contrasted with ft«raR:
with the acute accent on the last
vow el; cf. P. III. 2.128.
an ancient scholar of grammar
who wrote a treatise known as the
Phit-sutras on accents. He lived
after Papini.
verbal interpretation; the
term is generally used with reference
to the verbal interpretation
of a sentence as arising from that
of the words which are all connected
direcctly or indirectly with the
verb-activity. It is defined as
According
to the grammarians, verbal activity
is the chief thing in a sentence and
all the other words ( excepting the
one which expresses verbal activity
) are subordinated to the
verbal activity and hence are
connected with i t ; cf. 4