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TWO PHASES OF CULTURE
Later in the period of prose writers like Subandhu, Dandin and Bana, the style changed. It abounds in adjectives and long compounds. An adjective after all is a frozen verb where the active force is paralysed. This difference can be clearly observed in the present society also. The language of labourers and active workers is full of verbs indicating action. On the other hand the language of aristocrates is decorative, full of adjectives. For them mutual praise is more important than activity. Adjectives and degrees are more honoured than the actual name. This type of language was ivolved by poets who lived in an unreal world either past or the future. Their vocabulary abounds with the above two tenses. (was) and faf (may you become) are their pet words. First for praising the past glory and the second for showering the boons on the patron. Exaggeration is another speciality of this language. Every tiny prince is described as ruling over the entire earth girdled by four oceans which existed in the words of poets only. When he marches on a war expedition the earth trembles with the weight of his elephants.
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Upanishad :
To Jaimnni, the founder of Mimansa system and upholder of the institution of the sacrifice proposes that the Vedic texts were meant for some action. Any sentence without its relation to an action is meaningless. Consequently every world of the Veda should be associated with some proposition or negation. The Arthavedas or praises are construed with the proposition and Nidans or censors with the negation of an act.
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