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
Classification: Book_English
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them, being ignorant, come to suffer excessive misery." do vi tattha nimantaye Das. 5. 1. 38. "Both of them may call him." (5) In few cases we must admit some amount of inadvertence on the part of the writers who were misled by some adjacent word in a different number. P. (setthi) te (putte) vayappatte ghara-bandhanena bandhimsu | Dh. Co. 1. 2. "The merchant bound those sons who had attained youth with the bond of family." JM. sa imie saha dhammatthaabhagga-pasaraṁ visayasuham anuhavissu | Sam. 407. "Along with her he enjoyed the pleasures of the senses without impeding the course of religion and wealth."
There is a group of cases which show a peculiar type of disagreement between the subject and the verb. The speaker changes his thought from one number to another while adding a second verb to the first which shows the normal agreement. The result is that the two verbs joined with the same subject show different numbers. AMg. suddham ravai parisāe aha rahassammi dukkadam karenti | Sut. 1. 4. 1. 18.” They speak well in the assembly but perform wicked acts in secret." pakkhande jaliyam joim necchanti vantayam bhottum Das. 2. 6. "They fall even in burning fire but do not wish to take back what is vomitted." tam appaņā na ginhanti no ya ginhāvae param | Das. 5. 1. 5. "They themselves do not take nor cause others to receive." aggi cītthai Goyama je dahanti sariratthe | U. 23. 50. "There is fire in the body, O Goyama, which burns." As. e cu hetā desam pi hāpayisauti se dukatam kachati | K. V. 14. “Those who make even a part of this to suffer do a bad
act."
B. Agreement in Person. The subject and the finite verb normally agree as regards the person. From earliest times this agreement was observed with care on account of the radical difference between the three persons.
If the subject consisted of more than one word of different persons a definite rule is observed in choosing the persons of the verb. The plural verb is in the first person rather than in the second or third and in the second person rather than in the third AMg. (aham ca tam ca) mā kule gandhană homo Das. 2. 8. "I and you, let us not become Gandhana serpents in our family." JM. aham tumam ca do vi jujjhāmo | Kum. 53. “Let I and you both fight."
This rule, though apparently arbitrary, in giving preference to the first two persons, can be easily understood by trying to ascertain the meaning of the plural forms of the first two persons. The plural form of the first person does not simply mean the plurality of the concept expressed by the singular,