Sandesha Rasaka

SR No.: 002918
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Abdul Rahman, Jinvijay, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Publication Year: 1945
Total Pages: 282
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 17 MB

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GRAMMAR
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Paiāsaddamahannavo. This type of words are casually encountered in some modern vernaculars also. Cf. for example Dingal Aho, ma ( = 79 ) etc., Gujarātī HOS, 999 (= ), Hindi सकुशल, Bengali सचकित, Awadhi सभीत, Marathi सकाळी (Sk. *सकल्ये = कल्ये).
§ 49. Formation of the feminine bases.
Ap. has evolved its own laws of forming the feminine bases. Although there prevails a considerable option in the employment of particular suffixes, the chief tendencies allow themselves to be distinguished fairly clearly.
To start with, we have to take two basic facts into consideration. Firstly, the suffix *7 appears to be established in the language of our text as the feminine counterpart of the enlargement in °अय. Thus to a mase. करंतउ corresponds the fem. करतिय. Secondly, a new tendency has been developed in accordance with which the adjectival or participial (especially the present part.) 3-stems keep their base unchanged in the masc. as well as the fem. declension. Keeping these two facts in view we can explain the formation of the feminine bases in our text with considerable clarity.
i. Present participle.
There are four types of feminines formed from the pres. part. : (a) corresponding to a masc. Fia, we have the fem. Fa (Sk. fem. in Pret); (b) corresponding to the enlarged masc. #tas, we have the fens. करतिय'. This करतिय further appears as करती through contraction; (c) #ta without any addition or change serves as a masc. as well as a fem, base; (d) this formal identity of the masc, and the fem. base is extended to the enlarged cases also, so that a parallelism has come to be established between the bases in °अंति and °अंतिय on the one hand and °अंत and °अंतय on the other. One case of this type of the fem. pres. part, in the SR. is at 1676.
The numerical strength of these various types as represented in the Sr. is as follows: 10 in sifa, 17 in itaa (two or three of these, interpretable either way, as in esta or sifat ) and 10 in Osirit, 14 in °अंत, 1 in अंतय. Thus those in अंतिय/अंती score the highest figure.
ii. Preterit participle. 1 When métro roquires, we have also thaai with the upshortened final,