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Bauer, L (2006), Compound.

References

Bauer, L (2006), Compound.

Kiparsky, Paul (1982), Some Theoretical Problems in Pāṇini’s Grammar. Poona: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute.

Linguistic Notions

A compound can be defined in very basic terms as a word that is made up of two or more words. Compounds thus show properties of both morphological formation (the whole constitutes a word) and sy...

Texts

Aṣṭādhyāyī

The Aṣṭādhyāyī is the foundational sūtra text of the Pāṇinian grammatical school, and also (one of) the most important text in the Sanskrit grammatical tradition (vyākaraṇa) and the Indian literary...

Mahābhāṣyapradīpa

The Mahābhāṣyapradīpa (a.k.a. Pradīpa) is the oldest extant full commentary on the Mahābhāṣya. It has received several commentaries, e.g. Nāgeśabhaṭṭa's Mahābhāṣyapradīpoddyota.

Vaiyākaraṇabhūṣaṇasāra

The Vaiyākaraṇabhūṣaṇasāra, a shorter version of the Vaiyākaraṇabhūṣaṇa, is a commentary on the set of verses called Vaiyākaraṇasiddhāntakārikā authored by Bhaṭṭojidīkṣita. The Vaiyākaraṇabhūṣaṇasā...

Authors

Bhartṛhari's most famous work is the Vākyapadīya. He also wrote the Mahābhāṣyadīpikā, the oldest partially extant commentary on the Mahābhāṣya. Some also consider Bhartṛhari to be the author of a t...

Bhaṭṭojidīkṣita

Bhaṭṭojidīkṣita (fl. in Vārāṇasī), a.k.a. Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita or Bhaṭṭoji, was a hugely important figure in the Sanskrit grammatical tradition in specific and the Sanskrit intellectual traditions in g...

Kaiyaṭa was from Kashmir.

Kauṇḍabhaṭṭa

Kauṇḍabhaṭṭa was the son of Raṅgojidīkṣita, the brother of Bhaṭṭojidīkṣita, i.e. Kauṇḍabhaṭṭa was the nephew of Bhaṭṭojidīkṣita.

Patañjali is chronologically the third author in the Pāṇinian grammatical school whose work is extant. In the tradition, Patañjali is regarded as one of the Pāṇinian sage-triad (munitraya) enjoying...

Pāṇini (also referred to as Dākṣīputra and Śālāturīya), the author of the Aṣṭādhyāyī, was possibly from Gandhāra, which is the north-western area of the Indian subcontinent. In addition, the Pāṇinī...

Sanskrit Words

ajahatsvārthā

It mainly concerns the compounds and lays down that each member of the compound expresses its individual meaning.

A compound in which the case-affixes are not dropped.

Meaning "non obligatory, optional".

Technical term. A compound which is optional and whose meaning can also be expressed by its constituent members used separately (i.e. syntactic phrase).

Technical term, "non-constituent".

Indeclinable compounds.

A relative or adjective compound in which the last member loses its character of a substantive and together with the first member serves to qualify a noun.

Technical term, "a coordinative compound".

Technical term, 'the remaining of one'.

ekārthībhāva

Technical term meaning "conveying a single idea" (i.e. unitary meaning of a compound).

Technical term meaning "mutual".

A grammatical function in which the constituent members of an accomplished or finished word give up their individual sense and give rise to a single unified meaning.

A subtype of tatpuruṣa compounds.

kāryaśabdavāda

They possess the view that compounds and the corresponding word groups are derived according to the rules of grammar, and the underlying syntactic structures of a compound and the corresponding wor...

Technical term, "an affix used to form nouns from roots".

A compound in which the case-affixes are dropped.

Meaning "obligatory"

The position that words are eternal and not created by a speaker.

Technical term. A compound which is obligatory and whose meaning cannot be expressed by its constituent members used separately (i.e. syntactic phrase).

nityaśabdavāda

They deny the relation between the constituent meanings and the compound as a whole.

A Sanskrit word/form

Technical term, "a word or an inflected word".

Technical term, "possessing predominance".

Technical term meaning "aggregation".

Technical term referring to nominal case endings.

Technical term, "an affix forming nouns from other nouns (opposed to kṛt-)".

A class of compounds (formed like the word tat-puruṣa-,"his servant") in which the last member is qualified by the first without losing its grammatical independence.

Technical term referring to verbal endings.

Technical term, "a word standing near or accompanying another to which it is subordinate".

Technical term, "an operation".

Technical term used to refer to the mutual relationship in sense, as obtaining between two different words ( pada ) connected with each other in a sentence.

The alternative method of speaking by the use of compound words as contrasted with simple words.

Text Passages

From the text: Aṣṭādhyāyī

From the text: Aṣṭādhyāyī

From the text: Aṣṭādhyāyī

Aṣṭ. 2.2.38

From the text: Aṣṭādhyāyī

From the text: Mahābhāṣya

Linguistic Traditions

Apāṇinīya vyākaraṇa

Apāṇinīya vyākaraṇa (non-Pāṇinian grammar) refers to the various Sanskrit grammatical traditions based on root texts other than Pāṇini’s Aṣṭādhyāyī. The extant non-Pāṇinian gra...

Nyāya is the native tradition of logic and epistemology. Its foundational text is Gautama's Nyāyasūtra (c. 150 AD), which deals mainly with logic, epistemology, and the theory...

Pāṇinīya vyākaraṇa

Pāṇinīya vyākaraṇa (Pāṇinian grammar) refers to the Sanskrit grammatical tradition including and based on Pāṇini's grammar the Aṣṭādhyāyī (c. 400 BC). The Aṣṭādhyāyī...

Linguistic Fields

Morphology is the study of word formation. The analysis of word formation, and the positing of generative rules to govern word formation, held a central role in the Indian tradition. At least in...

Semantics is the study of the meaning of linguistic expressions, and more specifically the study of the literal meaning of linguistic expressions (in contrast with pragmatics, the study of the u...

The field of syntactic study focuses on the rules and principles governing the possible surface and abstract functional relations between words (and in non-lexicalist theories, parts of words) i...