Amrita Collected Papers by A M Ghatage

SR No.: 006968
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: Kasturbhai Lalbhai Smarak Nidhi Ahmedabad
Total Pages: 530
Language: English
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Patañjali on P. VIII. 1.1.
The evaluation of the teaching of the classical works, the language of which is no more a spoken tongue, depends upon a correct and precise interpretation of their words and arguments. This can be illustrated from a passage of the Mahābhāsya on P. VIII 1.1 Heta which introduces the topic of repetition of a word to convey some additional meaning of the words used. The necessity of using the word or in the sūtra is explained by the Vārttika I, which points out that the possibility of repeating the last sound of the word by applying the traffic rule 316 START should be avoided. This is justified by pointing out that the meanings of such formations, viz. fra in the sense of continuity (37192) and all in the sense of all-inclusiveness (1) could not be conveyed unless the whole word is repeated. Then follow the words se af R A ' rinfo fedett quefira TRIA. Avoidance or exclusion is one sense in which the pre-verb of is repeated as laid down in the sutra VIII. 1. 5. Hence the most natural interpretation of the words of wat would be to state that at least in the case of y, even the repetition of the final sound can convey the expected meaning of exclusion."
This sense is supported by the introduction of the next Vārttika which gives another reason for the use of the word om in the sūtra. The sūtras in this group use the words to be repeated in the Gen. case and therefore a reference to that case is necessary in the first sūtra so that what word is to be repeated is made clear. This alternative is suggested to avoid the contingency of repeating only the last sound of a word even in the case of a single rule in this group.
Kaiyata and Nāgesa find no means to show that a repetition of the final sound could in any way convey the intended meaning of this process of fara Hence they take the words of Patañjali to mean that an unacceptable possibility may arise in which the final sound when repeated should convey the sense of 'avoidance'. It is thus an suffers for the futur. But by the same meaning