Studies on Panini's grammar - DWC

The methods and mannerisms of composition in Pät;tini' 5 A~tädhyäyi 67
another and together form the words and the stream of spoken language.
and this one stream is again a strict unity. one psychical act. in each of its
utterances or sentences. And yet in this main current the accents of the
successive syllables form an under~current with a certain independence of
its own. And 50 this accent~current can subject itself to stylistic forms.
and the spoken language becomes a phrase that is sung; and th is song.
although still a unity in the strict sense of the word and therefore one line.
is at the same time the duality of text and melody. And in the same way
as in polyphonic music many melodies simultaneously form many lines.
although the time in which all th is happens is one dimension. 50 does the
current of accent flow onward within the wide current of spoken language.
for. do not let us forget. the science of mechanics. however beautiful and
sublime it may be in itself. does not represent the only shape that human
thought can take. and it is more than time for the students of moral
sciences to desist from a bigoted adoration for physics.
Pät;tini. therefore. was right in defining accent as a quality of the vowel
(or syllable) and at the same time treating it as a linguistic fact with its
own individuality.
§ 92. T hei n t r 0 d u c tor y c har act e r 0 f t h e pass a 9 e
6.1.1-157 and the dichotomical division of adhy. 6---8.
Adhy. 8 pä. 2-4 do not only teach the sentence~coalescence but for
mnemotechnical reason~ also i.a. the coalescence of a stem in pada~condi~
tiOll with its suffixes and the substitutions and rejections of consonants
which have to do with this subject. And it is this deviation from the logical
scheme owing to mnemotechnics which again forced Pät;tini to break the
dichotomical division of adhy. 6---7 by the introduction 6. 1. 1-157. in
which he treated of the vocalic sa'!1dhi and other subjects that are indepen~
dent of su eh distinctions as pada. bha. atiga and samäsa.
And although a fuller analysis of the last three adhyäyas with reference
to the distribution of their rules is desirabIe. for the present the thesis may
be accepted that the composition of the last three adhyäyas obeys the
formula: (i=6. 1. 1-157). {(Aa=6. 1. 158-6. 2. fin .). (Ab=6. 3.
1-7.4. fin)}; {(Ba=8. 1). (Bb=8. 2-4)}: See §§·73 sq.
§ 93. W a c k e rna gel '5 j u d 9 men ton t h e c 0 m pos i t f 0 n
o f t h e A ~ t ä d h y ä Y i.
WackernageI. the grammarian. in showing in 50 many places in his
Altindische Grammatik his great detailed knowledge of the Hindu gram~
matical scienee has done full justice to Pät;tini as a trustworthy and
competent witness oflinguistic facts. But the A~tädhyäyi is more than a
depository of facts; as a monument of ancient Hindu science it demands
from us a historiography obeying the rules of historical piety and perspec~
tive. In this respect WackernageI. although in a less offensive manner than
Whitney. faUs short in his judgment on Pät;tini (Altind ~ Gramm. I p.