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
§ 75. Compounds?.
Already in Prakrits, the strictness of the Sk. laws of nominal composition has been considerably tempered. Cf. PISCHEL, $ 603. The same tendency more strengthened prevails in Ap. We can roughly distinguish three types of such loseness of composition as gathered from the Ap. material of the text.
Firstly, there are several cases of 'permissible' looseness sanctioned by the Sk, scholiasts with the words "
H asta 7496917 HAE:”. Accordingly, we have for 7-Pane AG-HEC-4f877-7f2TTO 19a for fox7-paleta-le etc.; 3771€ na RTRS UTE 51c for 3 tafo-Biglasure; turags AESFUEur 52d for 2014-#EE5-FUTETUTS; faze Ffl-E 122c for 194-8ffor-ye; 14 ct ThiIGE 205d for 1977-ci-se.
Secondly, within a compound the order of various members has no regard to mutual grammatical or logical relations. We can almost say that any member can precede or suceeed any other member to suit metre and rhyme. This fact is recognised by the grammarians as wê qera raiatza:. The examples are: xha-JYTE 256 = 34#-TfFHE-HE; Otac-agur 27d=770-at = 7207-(717)-ngeet; 3T01-5R3f&120c = ff$77-370773-318; Figa-gaisa-stūri-athair; 1776= -3 -95ahore: 90-9f8fw-HR 1840 = 740-FR-qfeffa; tel@-Asformat 193a = Asformar- 2; 9733-114a= â zapool-'ris; fer-5<714 2160 = 9777?-FER.
Among these special attention is to be drawn to the last two instances of the cornpounds with the order of the members transposed for metrical convenience. Apart from a few genuine cases of 'endingless' forms, it is such cases that must have substantially contributed to make current the view that Ap. uses the bare stem also in the genitive. For in the case of the words in such expressions held together by the strength of context but otherwise appearing hanging in the air without any grammatical element connecting them inter se, one can easily say that here the bare stem (azati, UTTRY) functions as a genitive form'. But the cases attested here, as also lots of
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Those compounds which, though printed in the constituted text with their components separated, can be easily made out from the context have been left out of consideration. They also banish ALSDORF's doubts (As. p. 61) against 5739-(Hc. 383, 3c) being a transposed Karmadhāraya equivalent to 71-77377. Hence also there is no need to assume that in the said case the genitive ending is to be supplied to te from the succeeding words.
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