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A Comparative Study of Infinitives and Absolutives Used in the Vedas and
Prakrit Dialects*
Dinanath Sharma
To study the language of the Veda is to study the language of the literature which contains the mental activity of at least three millenia expressed in speech and writing. No one can understand the Indian spiritual life and culture without the insight of Vedic literature, being the oldest Indian literature; In the same way no one can claim to have the complete knowledge of Indian languages without the knowledge of Vedic language. As we try to see the origin of philosophical, cultural, geographical etc. elements in the Vedas, we try to search the lingual elements also in the Vedas, which are prevailing in different subsequent languages and dialects.
While doing comparative study of two or more languages, it requires to comprehend all the features of the same which is practically impossible to comprise in a single paper. This paper is, therefore, oriented only to two participles, viz. infinitive and absolutive.
The infinitive participle has been used 700 times in the ægveda?. The suffixes of this participles are as follows :Infinitive Suffixes Vedic Uses
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