[Advaita-l] A Small Composition

[Sunil Bhattacharjya]

Dear Vidyasankarji,

To my understanding, the epic Mahabharata was composed three decades after the Mahabharata war and the latter was fought in 3139 BCE. Thus Mahabharata precedes Panini by more than one and a half millennium. Is that to be considered while discussing the language of the Mahabharata?

Regards,

Sunil K. Bhattacharjya

--- On Fri, 3/12/10, Vidyasankar Sundaresan <svidyasankar at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Vidyasankar Sundaresan <svidyasankar at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] A Small Composition
To: "Advaita List" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
Date: Friday, March 12, 2010, 7:43 AM



> 
> >I notice that the Monier Williams dictionary says the form mAthayati
> >is found in the mahAbhArata, which also seems a bit strange. Why the
> >dIrgha in the first vowel?
> 
> 
> 
> The general rule for forming causative verb stems is to use what grammar books call
> 
> the "gunated" form and add "aya", if the root ends in a consonant. If the root ends
> 
> in a vowel, then the root is "vriddhied" and "aya" is added to form the stem. There are
> 
> exceptions. I mention a few. The root gam (to go) does not follow the "gunated" form.
> 


Yes, that explains it. I had overlooked that the general rule is to use guNa/vRddhi when
forming the causative.

 

Thanks,

Vidyasankar
                           
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