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indeclinables, for some indeclinables treated in this are as well. Nor is this confined to any of the different classes pertaining to the system mentioned above. Some indeclinables are treated in full verses, some in half-verses, some in quarters of verses, and some even in fragments of quarters. Here it may be noted that indeclinables are not infrequently associated with homonymous substantives, as most of them bear several senses.
The lexicon contains about 350 verses. It treats about 397 homonyms: 94 in full verses, 181 in half-verses, and 122 in quarters of verses. The fourth मुक्तक devotes 85 verses to the explanation of technical terms which number more than two hundred. The last deals with more than a hundred indeclinables in 40 verses. Thus the is a small lexicon, which treats only about 700 words in all.
Treatment: The lexicon is written in verse, which was the usual form adopted for scientific works with a view to facilitate students to commit them to memory. The verses are all composed in the अनुष्टुभ्. except the two nafs given at the end of the Third and Fourth. It would have been better if the author put a corresponding af at the end of the others as well.
The introductory verses (I, 1-3) are dedicated to Speech. Sarasvati, the Goddess of speech, is the only deity invoked in the The homonyms are not arranged according to any particular order. The choice of the first three homonyms (viz. fara, it and gft) however, seems to be significant. The author has simply aimed at classifynig homonyms according to the number of the s required to enumerate their different denotations. Accordingly the homonyms treated in the first generally yield four to eight meanings, those in the second usually convey two to four meanings, while those in the third generally bear only two meanings. The system of grouping homonyms according to लोकाधिकार, अर्ध-लोकाधिकार and पादाधिकार is also adopted in some other lexicons like the
Like the auhor of this lexicon also follows no principle of arrangement for the inter se order of the numerous homonyms treated in his lexicon. Some other lexicons, however, have their homonyms arranged according to the alphabetic order of their initial letters or final consonants. The homonyms in the , for instance, are all arranged
Cf. n. 6 above.
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