Makaranda Madhukar Anand Mahendale Festshrift

Author(s): M A Dhaky, Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre

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Vedisms in Daivarāta's Chandodarśana
form drse (1. 7. 5; IV. 1. 6; VII. 4. 6). Another Vedic infinitive form is gamadhyai (II. 4. 6; IV. 1. 5; IV. 2. 9; IV. 3. 1-11; IV. 4. 1-11). The form jīvase is found in IV. 1.7; VII. 4.6. In Chandodarśana II. 12. 8 Aorist Imperative Second Person Singular of the root kr viz. krdhi is used. Subjunctive forms like bhavāti (III. 1.8) and codayāsi (ii. 2. 6) are found in the Chandodarśana. A form from a denominative root viz. duvasya ("do you serve" from duvas "service") (III. 1. 4) is also typically Vedic. Gerundive form kartvam (III. 1. 5) is also a Vedic peculiarity. Use of the Perfect form cakartha in III. 6. 1 is a reminiscent of the Vedic language.
Stylistic use of the particle u is a peculiarity of the Vedic language. This particle is used very frequently in the Rgveda. For e. g. I. 24. 8; I. 26. 5 etc. In the Pada-pātha, however, this particle is invariably nasalized, lengthened and followed by iti (ŭ iti). This peculiarity is noticed in the Chandodarśana in exactly the same manner in its Samhitā-pātha and Pada-patha. See I. 2.5; III. 1. 8 and VII. 1. 7.
In the Vedic language the emphatic particle it (“only") is very commonly used (see e. g. RV I. 1. 4). In the Chandodarśana, too, this indeclinable is used in a similar manner. Thus see VI. 2.5: yo mimāya tridhed bhuvanam vägbhih.
There are some typically Vedic words used in the Chandodarśana. Thus in I. 4. 1 the word pūrusa is used (cf. also VIII. 4. 8-9). The word pratnathā (“in the ancient manner") is used in I. 5. 4. Some other expressions like mithuyā (“mutually") (VIII. 4.1); varūtha (“protection") (III. 1.4); syadhayā ("at will") (V. 4.1); apraketah ("without a mark") (I. 4. 4); vedisad ("sitting upon the altar") (I. 4. 6); pañca janah (“five tribes") (VI. 4. 13); durgrbhītah ("wrongly taken”) (VII. 2. 7); visvavedāh ("knower of all") (V.4.5); satpatih (“lord of existing things”) (VI. 1. 4); sahasvān (“powerful”) (I. 5. 5). In Chandodarśana II. 7. 7 the word ravatha is used in the sense of "sound". For the use of this word in the Rgveda : see I. 100. 13; IX. 80. 1.
Many phrases used in the Chandodarśana remind us of the same or similar phrases used in the Vedic literature. Thus in Chandodarśana I. 3. 2 we read savitā satyadharmā which is comparable to savitā satyadharma in RV X. 34. 8; X. 139. 3. In Chandodarśana I. 8. 1-4 Rudra is described to be