Madhuvidya

SR No.: 006525
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: S D Laddu, T N Dharmadhikari, Madhvi Kolhatkar, Pratibha Pingle
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2001
Total Pages: 762
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Literature, & Philosophy
File Size: 17 MB

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M. A. MEHENDALE
Nebenform von krs, die Bloomfield JAOS. 41,465 vorgeschlagen hat, an Wahrscheinlichkeit."
In the article referred to above BLOOMFIELD notes a 'root-determinative' d in Aryan tongues in such bases as iḍis-d, piḍ= pis-d, etc. On this analogy he offers a suggestion, described as 'daring' by himself, that Päli-Pkt. kaddh may go back to kyp-d> *krzd. But this seems impossible because the forms derivable from krzd do not only not appear in Sanskrit or Avesta, but have no parallel in any other Indo-European language. (It is not necessary to discuss GEIGER'S suggestion (§ 130) to consider kaddhati <kardhati, a side-form of karpati).
LUEDERS' objection to the derivation of Vkaddha from krsta is just his conviction that softening is an eastern characteristic. But as shown above this is not borne out by the Aśokan evidence, and hence there should be no objection to supporting WEBER'S suggestion noticed above. In the eastern language there seems to have arisen a verbal base Vkattha (from Sk. kṛṣṭa), giving forms like katthati. Now as regards the formation of middle Indie verbal bases from Sk. p.p.p. we may do well to refer to EDGERTON'S BHS Grammar 28.19 where he notes such forms as buddhati, lagnati, from buddha, lagna. Pāli kaḍdhati then evidently goes back to this katṭhati. That the eastern language had a form like katthati is shown by the fact that the manuscripts of the BHS texts give kaṭṭati which obviously stands for kaṭṭhati with loss of aspiration. (On other grounds, which I cannot detail here, I regard the loss of aspiration as a non-eastern characteristic). About this kaṭṭati EDGERTON does not offer any explanation. But he could have as well included it under 28.19 where he gives buddhati etc.
The other interesting case is that of Sk. vetana 'wages, reward, etc.. About this we read in the words of the Editor (p. 81, f.n. 1). "Endlich nennt LUEDERS eine Stelle aus J. 402,8, wo heisst: na pandite vedanam adiyanti, Dutoit:,,Nicht wollen Geldeslohn die Weisen haben." Hier steht vedanam für vetanam Lohn"." Thus from this remark it appears that in the opinion of LUEDERS. Sk. vetana had become vedana in the eastern dialect from where it was borrowed in Pali.
To my mind the case appears to have been otherwise. Vetana is a relatively late word. It was known to Panini in the north-west who used it in his sūtra 4.4.12 vetanädibhyo jivati. According to the Uṇādi III.150 it is to be derived from Vvi (gatyadau) with the suffix -tana. KUIPER, ZII 8.263-266, has a similar explanation but he connects it with the Vedic root Vvi 'zu gewinnen suchen'. (It is not necessary to discuss the suggestion of MONIER-WILLIAMS to derive it from Vurt).
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