Grihya Sutras

SR No.: 007685
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1886
Total Pages: 2642
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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VEDIC HYMNS.
mentioned as an exception in Sûtra 174, 9. The same applies to II, 3, 4, védî íti asyấm, Samh. védyasyam. The pragrihya i ought not to have been changed into a semivowel, but the fact that it had been changed irregularly, was again duly registered in Sutra 174, 5. These two pragrihya î therefore, which have really to be pronounced short, were irregularly changed in the Samhitâ into the semivowel; and as this semivowel, like all semivowels, may take vyavâya, the same object was attained as if it had been written by a short vowel. With regard to pragrihya û, no such indication is given by the Samhitâ text; but in such passages as I, 46, 13, sambhû íti sam-bhú a gatam, Samh. sambhu á gatam; V, 43, 4, bâhű íti ádrim, Samh. bâhữ ádrim, the pragrihya û of the dual can be used as short, like the û of madhû atra, given as an example by the commentators of Pânini.
To Professor Kuhn, I believe, belongs the merit of having extended this rule to final â. That the â of the dual may become short, was mentioned in the Prâtisâkhya, Sutra 309, though in none of the passages there mentioned is there any metrical necessity for this shortening (see p. lii). This being the case, it is impossible to deny that where this â is followed by a vowel, and where Sandhi between the two vowels is impossible, the final â may be treated as short. Whether it must be so treated, depends on the view which we take of the Vedic metres, and will have to be discussed hereafter.
I
agree with Professor Kuhn when he scans:
VI, 63, 1. kva tya valgu puru-hūta adya, (Samh. puruhûtâdya); and not kva tyā valgā puruhutadya, although we might quote other verses as ending with an epitritus primus.
IV, 3, 13. ma vesasya pra-minatah mă apeh, (Samh. mâpeh,) although the dispondeus is possible.
I, 77, 1. katha dasema agnaye ka asmai, (Samh. kâsmai.) VI, 24, 5. aryah vasasya pari-etă asti.
Even in a compound like tvâ-ûta, I should shorten the first vowel, e. g.
X, 148, 1. tmana tana sanuyama två-ūtāk,
although the passage is not mentioned by the Prâtisâkhya
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