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SAHRDAYĀLOKA tato vrajati.', we find it difficult to determine whether it is a single sentence or a number of sentences put together. The V.P. II. 6 observes : :
"yathanekam api kvāntam tingantasya višesakam, tathā tin-antam tatrā"hus
tinantasya višesakam." - (V.P. II. 6) Following the second vārtika, we will find herein, at least three sentences as constituted by different verbs. But the śāstrakāra does not accept it. According to him vrajati' is the main verb with which the sense is completed and the rest are only subordinate to it, or are just qualifying attributes of the same-Punyarāja on V.P. II. 6 observes: “násti atra vākyabhedah, 'vrajati' iti etat prādhānyena ekam kriyāpadam atra sthitam anyāni kriyántarāņi tin-viśesaņāni eva., see also - “bahusvapi tin-anteșu, sākāńkseșu ekavākyatā.” V.P. II. 450.
For others, the full import of a sentence lies in the inflected word i.e. pada. Not only the verbal form as seen above, but also an inflected word is found capable of receiving the designation of a sentence, provided it is one that retains in itself the action usually denoted by a verbal root : V. P. II. 326 observes -
"vākyam tad api manyante yatpadam carita-kriyam, antarena kriyāśabdam
vāky āder dvitva-darśanāt.” We find certain sentences in which, some words seem to be so predominant by their very nature, as to denote the entire meaning by themselves, without the help of others. The meaning of the sentence, "gāyako gāyati", can be collected by a single word, “gāyakah” the verbal form 'gāyati' being unnecessary. Only in such cases, a single inflected word is found to stand for the whole sentence, even independently of the verbal form. But, so far as the grammatical conception of a sentence is concerned, one can not just do away with 'vyāpāra' i.e. action. We can easily notice here that a sentence, whether consisting of a single word (i.e. either a nāma or an ākhyāta), or a combination of words, must be, as a rule, indicative of some action, either expressed directly, or understood. To the grammarian, a sentence without a verb is an impossibility,
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