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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Re: Help! English to Sanskrit script translation
(Ambujam Raman)
2. vipassanaa (Jay Vaidya)
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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 16:42:37 -0500
From: "Ambujam Raman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Sanskrit] Re: Help! English to Sanskrit script
translation
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I know. I was quoting verbatim from Edgerton. Also note that dR^ish is an
irregular verb which assumes the form 'pashy' in the conjugational tenses.
the lyuT (ana) krit affix forms abstract nouns. It appears pashy + ana =
pashyana . Perhaps the complete justification will be based on Buddhist
sanskrit grammar!
rAmaH
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Subject: Re: [Sanskrit] Re: Help! English to Sanskrit script translation
> Ambujam Raman uvaacha:
> > vipashyanA (vi-pashyati +anA (lyuT krit termination) meaning Correct
insight
>
> That doesn't sound right, grammatically.
> The root for pashya is "dR^ish" so shouldn't 'ana' be added to it
> instead?
> Can you give examples of similar usage?
> - Sai.
>
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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:02:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Jay Vaidya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Sanskrit] vipassanaa
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I think Raman is correct here (at least so go the
several Buddhist websites I confirmed at...)
This is very likely an original pAlI word, related to
the the sa.nskR^ita words
vi + dR^ish (pashya) + ana + A (feminine)
pAlI would follow its own grammatical rules whatever
they may be. So I would be a little wary of going so
far as calling the termination 'lyuT'. Another example
of a pAlI word, presumably following the same rules of
its grammar is 'anupassanaa'.
Once a language becomes spoken as a "first language"
by people, its vocabulary is its own, and
relationships with older languages are "etymology"
rather than distortion. Consider any modern Indian
language.
For example, consider the hindi word jAnakArI
(meaning: information)
in sa.nskR^ita "GYAna-kriyA" neither would GYA -> jAn
nor kR^i -> kar transformations would take place in
these circumstances, though they take place in jAnAti
and karoti. But they are perfectly grammatical in
hindi.
I am not sure of this exactly, but aren't pAlI grammar
texts (pANini-style) by authors named kachchAyana and
moggallAna usually used for learning pAlI word
formation?
Dhananjay
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