Nalrayavadanti Charita

Author(s): Ernest Bender
Publisher: American Philosophical Society

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BENDER: THE NALARĀYADAVADANTICARITA (TRANS. AMER. PHIL. SOC. Vocative: identical with the nominative (when it Examples: 46 a-bases, nominative singular, mascu
occurs) Instrumental: ii(m), e, ihi(m), i(m), i Locative: ii(m), e, i(m), i, (t)tha
Noun. Genitive: ha, a
a: aparādha (287) 'offence' Ablative: o, ām
uchava (322)
'celebration' kubaja (218)
'hunchback and in the plural:
kul'ācāra (166) 'proper conduct' kusala (234)
'Kubala' Nominative-Accusative: a, ā(m), a, i, 2,
kūbara (299)
"Kūbara' Vocative: no occurrences
gaja (34)
'elephant' Instrumental: e, i, ihi(m)
gama (217)
'village Locative: e, i
guna (295)
'virtue Genitive: a(m), ha(m)
ghara (292)
'house, palace Ablative: no occurrences
cora (187)
'thief The nominative-accusative singular suffixes are
cheha (295)
'end' (with the exception of the "extended" suffix -au) also
jana (245)
'man' employed as the suffixes for the instrumental, locative
thakura (292)
'lord, master' and genitive-both singular and plural.
tä pasa (180)
'ascetic The nominative, accusative, and vocative suffixes
tilaka (37)
'forehead-mark are attached directly to the base. The instrumental,
dadhipamna (221) 'Dadhiparņa' locative, and genitive suffixes function in two ways.4
dāna (98)
'gift' In the first, they are attached directly to bases which
dūta (222)
'messenger take -a for their nominative-accusative singular suffix.
deva (209)
god' The instrumental singular suffixes of the a-bases are
deha (226)
'body' -i(m), -i(m), -e, -ihi(m) and -7. The instrumental
dharma (9)
'duty' plural suffixes are -e, -i, and -ihi(m). The locative
namdana (26) 'son' singular suffixes of the a-bases are -ii(m), -i(m), -e, -7
nara (81)
'man' and - tha-the last occurring only in adverbs. The
narimda (54) 'monarch' locative plural suffixes are -e and -1. The genitive
naresa (117)
'monarch' singular suffixes are -ha and -ā; 45 the genitive plural,
nala (134)
'Nala' -ām). Of the ablative suffixes -0 occurs only once
näga (200)
'snake and -am appears only with adverbs.
piya (204)
'father' In the second type of suffixation the suffixes of the
bhamga (263) 'destruction instrumental, the locative and the genitive are at
bhamdära (310) 'treasury, store-house tached to the nominative-accusative singular suffixes.
bharatāra (263) "husband' bhima (52)
'Bhima' This statement applies to the remaining bases: the -1,-1, ā, and the "extended"-au. In bases which take
bhoga (302)
"pleasure mamca (47)
dais' the "extended" suffix -au (and its contracted form -o)
mūga (168)
'road' for their nominative-accusative singular, the suffixes
moha (210)
delusion' are attached to the -a after the -u(m) has been dropped.
ramga (263)
'pleasure The suffix of the instrumental-locative singular is
ratha (147)
chariot' -im): that of the instrumental-locative plural, -e.
vicära (286)
'conduct The genitive singular is-ha; the genitive plural -ha(m).
viveka (7)
discrimination' The nominative-accusative singular ā-suffix is replaced
visāsa (253)
'confidence' by -a before the other suffixes.
saimvara (319) 'svayamvara'
satthaváha (296) 'caravan leader 44 Tessitori, 88 55 ff. arranged nominal bases into two classes,
sätha (171)
*caravan' consonantal and vocal. "Consonantal bases end in a consonant (or conjunct) followed by -a, which is dropped before all termina
simgära (31)
'ornamentation tions. This class comprises all so-called 'weak' tadbhavas and
sura (204)
'god' tatsamas in oa. Vocal bases may be subdivided into: (a) bases
süāra (218)
'cook' ending in a vowel different from a, namely: 'a, 1, 7, ou, oi, and bases ending in 'ac (Ap. Raa, Skt. 'aka)."
46 Paradigms have not been set up, since no one base occurs 15-a is the genitive singular "extended" suffix. See Tessitori, with all its case-suffixes, both singular and plural. Bases have 1914-1916: $ 62, where he derives -ā from * 'aaha. This is the been identified by their nominative-accusative, singular, suffixes -a genitive-oblique suffix of the infinitive, and, at this stage of the (e.g., a-bases, d-bases, i-bases, etc.), and their gender and class language, is beginning to appear as the case-suffix of nominal (e.g., masculine, feminine, neuter, and noun, adjective, participle, forms before postpositions. Cf. the -oblique suffix of Modern etc.) given. Paradigms for the separate bases can be constructed Gujarāti.
by selecting the pertinent examples from the data given.