--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "TurquoiseB" <turquoiseb@...> > > Spiritual development is not some take-it-all- > as-seriously-as-one-takes-oneself experience.
That just made me ponder on, why (Classical) Sanskrit is so "fond of" compound words. One reason prolly is that by using compounds one can "forget" most sandhi_s and case endings. As an example, let's "study" this suutra: yamaniyamaasanapraaNaayaamapratyaahaaradhaaraNaasamaadhayo 'STaav an.gaani (...aSTau; an.gaani). yama-niyama+aasana-praaNaayaama-pratyaahaara-dhaaraNaa-dhyaana-samaadhayo 'STaav an.gaani (...samaadhayaH[1]; aSTau; an.gaani). Without presenting that as above, as a dvandva (simple coordination) compound it would read (I guess, provided I could recall all the genders correctly) like this: yamo niyama aasanaM praaNaayaamaH pratyaahaaro dhaaraNaa dhyaanaM samaadhish caaSTaav an.gaani. 1. Plural from samaadhi(H); in a dvandva of more than two components the last word gets a plural ending
