The Ashtádhyáyí of Pánini Volume 3

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...This must be taken however, with certain limitations. The word «5fj»?r: is not after all so wide as at first sight it may appear. If we wish to form a word indicating measure, in the feminine gender, we cannot use triij we must use the affix fajH (III. 3. 94). In other words, the feminine affixes arc not superseded by qwhen it supersedes afqr and s Thus in forming a feminine noun denoting measure, we have rrfrrertfeiSiPET:, t TOf &c Vart:--The affix qsj comes after the causative verbs frfr and rrfc, and there is luk elision of the causative affix fcr; when the word so formed is related to the verb as agent. Thus jrrqfoi 9r« = sPrr: 'a wife' (lit 'who divides brothers'a wife breaking up the brotherly love); srrHTf??r--'a paramour'. The word To5 means 'extent, circuit, range'. As «r?ref-WK: 'the extension of the garment'. Why do we say 'when meaning extent'? Observe, acrRfttic: a collection of grass'.. Why do we say 'not referring to words'? Observe ffWt 'WPT, 'prolixity of words'.' #ft rrfa u 11?rrfa, (tT, V:, Tjo) ftr. 11 fcjnpfjsnffi q-qjrni nf% 11 34. The affix 'ghaii' comes after 'stri' with the npasarga 'vi', when the word so formed is the name of a metre. The word gr?$ here means prosodial metre such as Gayatri &c;and not the Vedas; otherwise the word im would not have been used. Thus fa nf?r+ra+(VIII. 3. 94)=firstr: 'the name of a metre called Vishtara-Pankti'. The whole word firwifttf is the name of a metre, and is not a word en ding with the affix ghafl; only a member of this word, i. e. the first part ends with ghafl. The seventh case-affix in the word atnfil has the force of location i. e. when the word so formed occurs in a portion of a name of a metre; it is not the full name, but it is in the name i. e. forms a porti...