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68 <strong>Studies</strong> on Pä~ini' s Grammar LXII) , wh en he expresses himself in the following words: 'Pä~ini selbst nennt eine Anzahl Vorgänger. Ja sein Werk scheint wesentlich eine Neu~ redaktion eines. vielleicht vor ihm schon mehrfach umredigierten, gram~ matischen Grundwerks zu sein. Ein rationeller Grundplan schimmert durch ...... Aber dieser Aufbau wird beständig durch einzelne Regeln oder ganze Reihen von Regeln durchbrochen, oEfenbar, weil man nach Bequem~ lichkeit an beliebiger Stelle einschob, was bei weiter entwickelter Forschung neu hinzukam. Auch mochte die Möglichkeit Worte zu ersparen etwa dazu fühun, Regeln aus ihrem natürlichen Zusammenhang herauszureissen und anderswohin zu versetzen. ' So then Wackernagel. a great grammarian, could not, as historiographer, see anything in Pä~ini save the dimlight of a rational plan and the deep night of historical chance, miserliness in words, love of ease, a breaking down of natural connections, the whole a whirlpool of caprice. Indeed, those ancient Hindu grammarians have committed crime in not being bom as modern. logical. strenuous and capriceless European scholars, writers of books as weil arranged as the safes of a bank! However, the explorer who has in fact done so much to give us a full understanding and ajuster appreciation of Pänini, really deserves something better than an ironical tirade. Let me say then that we, Europeans of the twentieth century, although grateful to the genius of the ancient Greeks, which with the help of geometrical textbooks and well~balanced political· speeches has taught us the power and beauty of the logical intellect, also realise that there is something else in the world of thought besides logic. Contemporary psychology has taught us that creative synthesis does not merely belong to critica 1 intellect and consciousness, but that also our dreams have their laws of composition, that the mind of the child, though weak in logical dis~ crimination, possesses a gift of construction, which shows itself in the original touches of its traditional games, and that the artist is artist just because there is still so much of the child in him. When, then. in the A~tädhyäyi we meet with a wonderful. puerile and ingenuous anubandha~system , with mnemotechnical interests weighing heavier than auy log ic in the world, with associative digressions in unlimited number, then we confess: we adore Pä~ini because he reveals to us the spirit of India; we adore India because it reveals to us the Spirit, the Spirit.
APPENDIX. § § 94-97. Discussion of some technical difficulties. English translation of French and German quotations. § 94. The definition of upasarga (§ 19). According to the Käsikä the expression kriyä-yoge must be taken as a supplement to the su tras and specially the adhikära-sütra of the passage I, 4, 60---79. Thus, whilst the passages, quoted in § 19, compel us to interpret kriyä-yoge in sü. I, 4, 58 sq. by 'in connexion with [the notion of] an action, [either expressed or implied ] " kriyä-yoge. when supplement to su. 60 has the narrower meaning of 'in connexion with [the notion of] an action [expressed]' = . in connexion with [a word expressing] an action, [i.e. either a finite verb or a deverbative]', cf. § 17 no. 3 and Note. Undoubtedly the redaction of the Siitra-Pätha is logically not quite satisfactory here. § 95. Th e m e a n i n 9 0 f t h e pratyähära sup (§ 45 a n d passim). In the first place sup is the technical designation of (A) the declinational terminations (SP. 4, 1, 2 and 1, 1,71). Moreover, according to 1, 1,72 sup indicates (Ba) a declined noun, and according. to the rules for pratyaya-lak~aTJa (esp. 1, I, 62) it likewise includes (Bb) the nominal stem, e.g. as the preceding member of a compound (1. 2, 46 and 2, 4, 71) and Be the indeclinables (2, 4, 82). So, when in 2, 1, 4 the rule is given: [sup] saha supä and we read in 2, 1, 6 avyayam as a substitute for the first sup in this formula, th en th ere is, strictly speaking, no question of an exception. but only of a limitation. A similar remark holds good for su. 2, 2, 18, wh ere according to algebraic reasoning it is not qQjte accurate to say (cf. § 45 p. 37 I. 7) that the second sup of sup saha supä is put aside by Päl)ini, rather should we understand that th is sup, in anti thesis to what precedes, is extended to both the meanings Ba and Be. However, inconsistences will necessarily of ten arise owing to the artificiality and unfitness of algebraic expression for describing linguistic facts. And so it is no matter of surprise that the Käsikä, too, takes su. 2, 2, 18 as an exception to 2, 1, -4 in its interpretation: ku-gati-prädayalJ samarthena (cf. 2, 2, 1 and § 31) Sabdäntarena saha nityam samasyante. § 96. Th e well-planned construction of the A~tädhyäyi illustrated by the interpretation of SP. 1, 1. 3. Thê insufficient number of cross-references and the of ten too limited choice of examples in BöhtJingk's translation do not always allow us to seê the ingenuous construction of Pä"ini' s work.
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STUDIES ON PANINI'S GRAMMAR BY BARE
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