Indian Antiquary Vol 21

SR No.: 032513
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 430
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[OCTOBER, 1892
ing with krittikâ, though with their secondary titles (pussa, jetthå, müla, savana, dhaniţthâ, bhaddavaya). Cf. Ind. Stud. X 295, 16, 263, 415. The patronymic formation of eight different names, one for each born under a definite nakshatra, is here specially treated of and also the names in : dinna, dhamma, samma, (šarman), déva, dåsa, sena, rakkhia, thus, e. g., kattia, kattidinna (kitti°), kattidhamma, kattisamma etc. Furthermore the patronymics from the names of each of their 28 divinities ; 10 thus aggié, aggidinnê, aggidhammé etc. All this proves eo ipso that this kind of names was very popular at the date of the composition of the text itself, or rather at the date of its sources.
This is for the latter a [32] factor of synchronistical importance (see p. 40) since these nakshatra names appear to have been exceedingly popular at the period of the grihyasútra, and even of Påņini. See my treatise on the nakshatra 2,317 fg. As examples of patronymic kula-names Ikkhage (Aiksh våka), Naye (the kulam of Mahavira) and Koravvê ure cited. The following appear as påsanda in the same connection : - samaņê pamdaramgê, bhikkû kaválie, tavasê and parivvåyåê, s. Bhag. 2, 213". The scholiast explains bhikkhů by Buddhadarśanåsritah and on the other hand asserts that there is a five-fold division of samata : niggamtha-Sakka ('Sakya)-tâ vasa-geruya ajîvå with which Abhayadeva too is acquainted (see p. 281.). He connects the panduranga with the naiyayika. (But cf. above, p. 26.)
Under the head of bhavapamana, as a species of pamî nanama, the composition of words is first treated of. There are seven forms of this, the examples of the first form being given (see pp. 29, 30) in Sansksit, vix. : - 1. damda, examples : damtaś cha oshtham cha damtoshthau, stanau cha udaram cha stanôdaram, .. vastrapatram, .. aśvamahishau, .. ahinakulam, 2. bahuvvihi, 3. kammadharaya, 4. digu, 5. tappurisa, 6. avvayibhîva, and - 7. @kasêsa, the plural as a collection of several units (there is no dual). The eight-fold taddhitas follow the compounds :kammam 1 sippa 2 silo 3 samjôya 4 samivað 5 a samjûhê 6 issariâ 7 'vachchêņa 8 ya taddhitanamam tu atthaviham ||
It is peculiar that among these examples there are almost as many of primary as of secondary formation and in fact [33] even compounds.11 The commentary explains this peculiarity, which is to be ascribed to actual ignorance (cf. the wilful blunder, p. 30) as follows: -- iha taddhitaśabdéna taddhitapraptihêtubhûtô 'rthô grihyatê, tato yatra 'pi tunnkê tamtuviê ity-adau taddhitapratyayo na driśyatê tatra 'pi taddhêtubhûtârthasya vidyaminatvật taddhitajatvam (perhaps merely taddhitatvam) siddham bhavati.
It is especially interesting that here samjaha, samyútha are explained by the scholiast as grantharachanó, so that the examples cited in the text are to be regarded as titles of literary compositions :- Taramgavati, Malayavati, Sattånusathi (atta) and Bimda are such names ! dhátaê is said by the text to be the third group of bhåvapamiņa. It is explained in Sanskrit in the following most singular fashion :- bhû sattayam parasmaibhishi, ed ha vșiddhau, spardha sambarzhê, gådhội pratishthâlipsayor granthó cha, bâdhội lêdanê, sê 'ttam dhatuê. This is nothing more than the beginning of Påņini's dhâtapatha; see Westergaard Radices, p. 344. The fourth group, niruttid, enumerates in Sanskrit a large number of very peculiar etymologies : mahyâm śêtê mahishah, bhramati cha rauti cha bhramarah, [34] muhur mahur lasati musalam, kapir iva larvate thach (v. l. are ghatti, bêti, sheti) cha karôti (patati cha is added by BC) kapittham, chid iti karoti khallam cha bhavati chikkalla, ardhvakargal ulukalı, khasya mala mekbala.
• The names in "bhati, of. Indo, Aggio, V&yuo, are omitted strangely enough.
10 ahi budbnya appears here as vivaddhi (!), of. vividdbi in auga 3 (p. 26), both are forms which are much more corrupted than the abhivaddhi (vuddhi) of the Súryaprajnapti, see Ind. Stud. 10. 205.
11 On 1 tanahral eto, on 2 vatthie, tunnda tamtavle etc., -on 3 samaņe, mAhnné, on ranno sasurae shlae, -on 5 girissa samivé nagarar girinagaram, Vidisse s. n. Vediama, - on 6 Taramgavaikare (in BR invariably kAral), Malayavatti(vai BEL)kArd, satt(atta BB)ạtsatthikarê, bindukare (of. dharmabindu lôkabindu, p. 457), - on 7 tarê talavard mAdambie ..-on 8 arahamtamaya, chakkavattimAy A, Baladēvamaya, Vasudevamaya.
13 ardhvakarna ... omitted in B.