[Advaita-l] Theory of Language: Mimamsa, Advaita and Vyakarana - 2 of 3

[Praveen R. Bhat]

Namaste Siva Senani ji,

First of all, thanks for both of your wonderful posts. While awaiting your
3rd post in the series, may I ask the following clarification?



On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Siva Senani Nori via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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> If dadhi and dadhy are differentŚabdas, then the sūtra of Pāṇini which
> ordains this(इको यणचि ॥6.1.77॥- In the place of iK (i, u, ṛ, ḷ)
> aresubstituted yaṆ (y, v, r, l) when iK is followed by aC (vowels) – this
> is theusual translation of this sūtra) mustbe wrong.
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Why would the usual translation be wrong, when the वृत्ति for इको यणचि
would have to say that इकः स्थाने यण् आदेशः भवति? Isn't आदेश (or आगम/ लोप
for that matter) always supposed to be a replacement and not a
modification? In that case, the word दध्य् formed by replacing a letter is
not the same word, unless said so by another पारिभाषिक sutra; is this right?

Of course, Bhashyakara Sabariswami's answer seemed to clinch the argument.

Kind rgds,
--Praveen R. Bhat
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