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
File Size: 10 MB

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Amrita
Cof the Locatiksolute constrinnaneh
(śīlānka ladha nāma janapadavisesaḥ tesu ca dvirūpeșu), duccaragāņi tattha lādhehim Ay. 1. 9. 3. 6. "in that country of Lādha the places were difficult to wander through” (Šīlāńka tatra teșu lādheșu p. 282); vihāya dandam pānehim Ay. 1. 9. 3. 7. "abstaining from punishment from living beings”; evam pi tattha lādhehim aladdhapuvvo vi egayā gāmo Ay. 1. 9. 3. 8. "thus in that country of Lādha he did not once get a village to live" (śīlānka tatra lādhesu p. 282).
2. A further development of the confusion between these two cases is the interesting fact that on the model of the Locative absolute construction the Ardha-Māgadhi canon shows and Instrumental absolute construction. tam jahā, soyaparinnāņehim parihāyamāņehim cakkhuparinnāņehim parihāyamānehim ....... abhikkantam ca khalu vayam pehāe Ay. 1. 2. 1. "for example while the cognizing power of the ears, eyes etc. is waning and knowing the period of life to be short” so also, sottaparinnāņehim aparihāyamānehim Ay. 1. 2. 1.; sayanehim vīimissehim itthio tattha se parinnāyā Ay. 1. 9. 1. 6. "in the places mixed up with householders he knew the real nature of women" (śīlāňka, sayanāni vasatayah tesu .....vyāmisritesu grhasthatirthikaih); In fact this construction has led śīlānka to write in Sanskrit taiḥ srotraparijñanājaih (? naih) jarāprabhāvāt parihiyamanaih sadbhih p. 15. an anomaly which cannot be otherwise explained. The supposition of such a construction will greatly facilitate the interpretation of passages like saehim pariyāehim logam būyā kade tti ya, Sut. 1. 1. 3. 9. "in their own views they speak the world to be created"; amohāhi padantihis gihamsi na raim lahe Utt. XIV. 21. "while the nights are flying uselessly I cannot get delight in the house"; chinnāhi sāhāim tameva khanum Utt. XIV. 29. "with the branches cut it is called a stump."
3. In a great number of cases we find the Instrumental used where with the rules of a refined grammar the Locative should be found. In fact in many other cases the Locative is used in the canon in similar instances along with this curious use of the Instrumental case. sattā kāmehi mānavā Sut. 1. 1. 1. 6. "men are attached to pleasures"; abhinūmakadehi mucchie tivvam se kammehi kiccai Sut. 1. 2. 1. 4; ajjhovavannā kāmehi mucchiyā Sut. 1. 2. 3. 4. "infatuated and attached to pleasures”; pāņehim sanjae Sut. 1. 2. 3. 12. "restrained towards the living beings”; jaipaham anuparivattamāne tasathāvarehim viņighāyamei Sut. 1. 7. 3. “wandering through the course of births he comes to destruction in the births of movable and immovable beings"; saddehi rūvehi asajjamānam savvehi kāmehi viniya gehim Sut. 1. 7. 27. "without sticking to all kinds of forms and removing attachment towards all