Cattle Field And Barley Note On Mahabhasya

Author(s): A Wezler
Publisher: A Wezler

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clarified by closer inspection, and it is this that I propose to do in the present note.
What I am going to offer is hence merely a very small piece of a large mosaic, and even one I did not discover myself, yet a piece which is easily overlooked by scholars who might wish to deal in a comprehensive manner with the Indian ideas about and attitudes towards vegetal life, a subject of utmost importance when the disastrous and global havoc provoked by 'progressive' Western ideas everywhere is considered. And, to be sure, such a comprehensive study could be undertaken more easily, and with much better results, if the various relevant pieces of information were .collected and studied separately.
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pratyavasānārthaśabdakarmākarmakāṇām
The passage in question is found in the discussion of Pan. 1. 4. 52— a sūtra which is traditionally taken to form a restriction of 1. 4. 49, i.e. the definition of the kāraka-category karman-which reads thus: gatibuddhianikartā sa nau. According to this rule the technical term karman is applicable also to that which forms the agent of a noncausal action, expressed by a verb containing the causative suffix ni (c), if this suffix is added to the verb, i.e. a corresponding causative is formed, provided the action is one denoted by verbs denoting movement (gati), cognition (buddhi), consuming (pratyavasāna); or the action is one of which the object is a sound (sabdakarma) or one which does not have an object (akarmaka);