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INTRODUCTION
BEAMES has rightly termed them "early tadbhavas' (Comp. Gr. Vol. I, p. 17). They are the independent basic elements of Pkt. The latter class includes the Pkt words that are derived from grammatically complete (siddha) Sanskrit words (cf. nikkamai-niṣkrāmuti ). Although Mk does not give such a twofold division of tadbhava words, the same is evident from the nature of his treatment of them. In I. 2, the examples of tadbhavas he gives are rukkha, ghara and peranta etc., evidently all of these belonging to the siddha class of tadbhavas. We have discussed at some length in the previous chapter the word desya as meant or defined by Pkt grammarians and rhetoricians. Mk fully agrees with He and his followers in defining desya as that which is not derived by grammatical rules and that which is current in particular parts of the country and used by great poets1 such as laḍaha ( handsome), peṭṭa (belly) and tokkha(?). In this context he quotes a verse from an unknown work of Bhojadeva, the English translation of which would run thus: Desya is so called because of being used in different modes of speech in countries ruled by the kings as also by the people in their own peculiar ways" PS Intro. I. 3).
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1. Cf. PS I. 3 with on I. I. 2 आद्या लक्षणनिरपेक्षा संप्रदायादेव भवति ।
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19. As on the classification of Pkt words, the grammarians and rhetoricians have different opinions regarding the Pkt dialects. Many of them are tioned for the first time in the earliest extant works on
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