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time to entertain the possibility of taking amanuṣya in a literal sense. The Kasika does not appear to be the first commentary to do so.
42. As the secondary derivatives tend to acquire a general meaning (such as 'belonging to, pertaining to, associated with') in the history of Sanskrit, pārvata (and parvatiya) probably expanded beyond the sense 'a parvata-dwelling ogre/ghost/ascetic' to include items associated with mountains in general; i.e., pārvata (and parvatiya) could also be used as adjectives of things such as water and fruit found on a mountain. It is likely that because of this semantic development the Kāśikā decided not to follow consistently the narrow meaning of amanuşya it advocated in the case of Pāņini
2.4.23.
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