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Negative particle
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would denote the sādịśya ‘similarity'. in that case there would be six different denotations as stated earlier. This involves complexity (Bhūşaņa p. 203).
The negative particle nañ expressing absence may be sometimes subjunct (viśeşya 'qualified') and sometimes adjunct (višeşana 'qualifier'). In the form asa 'other than him', atvam. bhavasi '(somebody) other than you become', anekam 'more than one', the second member is principal. That explains the pronominal operations, the number and the person which are determined by the predominance of the second member. Thus the view of the uttarapadārthaprādhānya ' meaning predominance of the second member' explains these examples. But according to the other view the particle nañ denotes 'absence which stands as a qualified (yisesya). In this view the mean ing of nan is the main meaning. In the above referred special cases the predominance of the 2nd member is retained by resorting to the laksaņā 'secondary function which conveys the sense of difference' or 'mutual absence. In such cases the negative particle denies the relation of identity in the form of denying reference to the meaning of the second member (Bhūsaņa, pp. 203–204).
Note
Prākrit
Pages refer to the Vaiyākaranabhūsana, Bombay Sanskrit and Series, 1915.
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