Studies on Panini's grammar - DWC

The grammar of the indeclinables 35
both within the word and the sentence 1), this combined treatment being
useful for mnemotechnical economy, and that adhy, 8 treats of (b a) the
sentence~accent and (b f3) the consonantal sa'!ldhi both within the sentence
and between the stem~pada ancl the so~called pada~suffixes .
§ 42. T hem e a n i n 9 sof t het e r m s pada a n d bha, SP.
1, 4,14-20.
The term pada denotes (1) a complete word (sil. 14) inclusive the last
member of a compound 2) i.e. a sup (declined noun), tin (finite verb) or
an avyaya 3) (indeclinable), (2) the prätipadika which represents the word
as preceding member in a compound (sü. 14) 4) (3) the stem of a noun
before (a) the declinational endings beginning with a consonant except the
s of the nom. sing. 5) (sil. 17), (b ) the denominative noun~suffixes
(taddhitas) beginning with a consonant except y 6) (Sil. 17) and except
the case mentioned in sü. 19, (c) the taddhita~suffixes beginning with y or
vowel, but characterised by a grammatical~technical s 7) (sil. 16). and (d)
the stem of a noun ending in n before the denominative root ~ suffixes
technically called kya (sü. 15).
The term bha denotes the stem of a noun before (a) the declinational
suffixes beginning with avowel except in the sarvanäma~sthäna~cases :
~am , ~au, nom. plur. ~as , neutr. plur. ~i (sü. 18 and cf. SP. 1, 1. 42 sq.),
(b) the suffixes ~ä, ~i, ~ïi of grammatical motion (sü. 18 and cf. SP. 4, 1,
3--81 ); (c) the taddhita~suffixes beginning with a vowel or y except those
characterised by a technical s (sil. 18) , (d) the stem of a noun ending in
t or s before a matvartha~suffix (sil. 19) and (e) the Vedic cases referred
to in sü. 20 (but missing in the GaJ).a~Pätha).
Not e. Th e a nno t a t ion toS P . 1, 4, 17 b y B ö h t 1 in 9 k
(edition, I p. 477 "Nachträge und Verbesserungen" ). - Böhtfingk
annotates to 1, 4, 17, 'unter den svädayaIJ verstehen die Erklärer alle
Suffixe yoni, 1, 2 bis 5, 3, 70' 8) . The Käsikä, however, says sv~ädi~v iti
su~sabdäd ekavacanäd 9) ärabhya, ä kapalJ pratyayä grhyante. The kap~
suffix mentioned here, is not found in 5, 3, 70 but it is the samäsänta~suffix
of 5, 4, 151 fgg. 10) , which reference in view of the ambiguity of ä 11)
comes to this: 'the au thor of the sütra here refers to all endings mentioned
1) See § 92.
2) A compound in its totality Is never called pada, cf. SP. 8, 4 sÜ. 1 and 3.
3) 2, 4, 82 and 1, 1, 62 with BöhtIingk's note; 1, 1, 63 (angasya!) does not bear on
th is casenotwithstanding the rejection by luk (adhikära~sütra 2, 4, 58) .
4) 1, 2, 46 (where samäsa = preceding member of a compound), 2, 4, 71 and 1, 1, 62.
11) This results by the application of the adhikära 1, 4, 1 sq.
6) See § 42 Note.
7) These are the suffixes ~iya. ~iga. ~ga and ~gu called respectively ghas. chas. gas.
gus (Böhtlingk 11 p. 185* s.v. sit) .
8) Cf. Böhtlingk 11 p. 145* GP. 257.
8) Cf. SP. 4, 1, 2.
1.0) BöhtIingk 11 p. 158* s.v.
11) Cf. SP. 2, 1, 13 and PäJ;üni's technical use of präk.