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Grammatical Riddles from Jain works
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Which word expressing the absence of interval is desired ?-In immediate succession anu
And how can the Lord of Monkeys be victorious ?_With Rāmah saRāmah
O good people who are free from envy, what do you always do on the earth in order to tell others' virtues ? _We follow (them) anusarāmah
This pattern is exhibited in 13 cases :
a-bhi bhavati / abhibhavati (2.38) - anuja grhe / anujagrhe (2.40) - samā dadhi re / samādadhire (2.41) - avamam tårah / avamantārah (2.42) - a-nu mātā ase / anumātāse (2.43) - dāsya mahe / dāsyāmahe (2.44) - prayāsī ati / prayāsyati (2.45) - santi a-jatu / santyajatu (2.46) - ali lavam alīlavam (2.48)--samaram jayam / samaranjayam (2.51) - parā ājaye mahi parājayemahi (2.52) - vină udaye yam / vinodayeyam (2.53).
Whereas some of the verbal forms to be discovered are rather simple, some others are not so common in the ordinary language and require a full knowledge of grammar.
5.2. The functioning of the second pattern, represented only by two instances, is basically the same, but instead of forming only a verbal form one of the answers is a syntagm or a full sentence :
nadi iyatām / na dīyatām (2.47) - mānava nagäḥ / mä anavana gāḥ (2.49).
5.3. In the last pattern, the stanza is made of two questions only. The first one produces a noun, the second one a verb : Q, →A as a noun and Q, → A as a verb. The difference is that here the answer is not progressively built with the help of two or more elements which are piled up as in the preceding cases. E.g.,
kim akaravam aham Harir mahīdhram sva-bhuja-balena gavāṁ hitam vidhitsuh ? priyatama-vadanena piyate kah
parinata-bimba-phalopamah priyāyāh ? (VMM 2.50) I, Hari, what did I do to a mountain with the strength of my own arms, as I wanted to do something useful for the cows ?—You held (the Govardhana) adharah
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