dictionary of sanskrit grammar

mar as also the Dhatupatha, the
Ganapatha and other subsidiary
appendixes. Although the rules of
the Astadhyayi are not recited
at present with the proper accents
possessed by the various vowels as
given by the Sutrakara, still, by
convention and traditional explanation,
certain words are to be
believed as possessed of certain
accents. In the Dhatupatha, by
oral tradition the accents of the
several roots are known by the
phrases m sw^tTT:, BWfai'-
5rai:, put therein at
different places. In the sutras,
a major purpose is served by the
circumflex accent with which such
words, as are to continue to the
next or next few or next many rule,
have been marked. As the oral
tradition, according to which the
Sutras are recited at present, has
preserved no accents, it is only the
authoritative word, described as
* prutijiia ’ of the ancient grammarians,
which now is available for
knowing the svarita. The satne^
holds good in the case of nasalization
( snrpifew) which is used as a
factor for determining the indicatory
nature of vowels as stated by the
rule fct;; cf. sfiifTmmrai:
s. K. on P. I. 3.2.
. wtefffRSn the conventional dictum
that a particular rule or part of a
rule, is marked with the accent
which enables the grammarians
to decide that that rule or
that part of a rule is to occur in
each of the subsequent Sutras,
the limit of continuation being
ascertained from convention. It is
possible that Panini in his original
recital of the Astadhyayi recited
the words in the rules with the
necessary accents; probably he
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recited every word, which was not
to proceed further, with one acute
•~'r with one circumflex vowel,
while, the words which were to ’
proceed to' the next rule or rules,
were marked with an actual cir- .
cumflfx accent (-Kffer), or with a
neutralization of the acute and the .
grave accents (w fcftf), that is,
probably without" accents or by
t^gf?r or by cf.
P. I. 3.11 and the Mahabhasya
thereon.
marked with a mute circumflex
vowel; the term\is used in connection
with roots in the Dhatupatha
which * are said to have been so
. marked for the purpose of indicating
that they are to take personal
endings of both the padas; cf.
^feifacn P. 1.3.72.
^q^TSTfCFr mention by the verbal form,
and not by the description of
characteristics; e. g. ?•
VII. 2.114; VI. 1.
58; cf. ffcirm w -
M. Bh. on P. V I. 1.58.
deserving by virtue of
one’s own form.
an operation prescribed for
the verbal form of the word and
not for such words as possess the
meaning of the word ; cf.
1 1 1
^ 1 M. Bh.
on P. I. 1.56 Vart. 1. In grammar
there is a general dictum that in
connection with words of a Sutra,
unless they are technical terms, the
word-forms are to be understood,
and not those shown by the sense
of the word; cf. m ^
P. I. 1.6S. This rule has some
exceptions; for example, in the rule
P. II. 1.20 the various rivers