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Dvandva, Tatpurusa and Bahuvr hi: on the Vedic sources for the names of the compound types in Pānini’s grammar
Author(s) -
Sadovski Velizar
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
transactions of the philological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-968X
pISSN - 0079-1636
DOI - 10.1111/1467-968x.00102
Subject(s) - possessive , linguistics , grammar , section (typography) , determinative , genitive case , class (philosophy) , literature , philosophy , history , computer science , art , noun , epistemology , operating system
In the paper, the Vedic sources of the basic terms for nominal compounds in the native Indian grammatical tradition are philologically and linguistically examined. Section 1 explores the development of dvandva– , Pānini’s term for the copulative compounds, outside grammatical literature, and its lexical use in the Veda. Section 2 deals with the occurrences of bahuvr hi– in Veda as part of the possessive compound bahuvr hiyavá – (Taittir ya–Brāhmana, Śrautasūtras) and as the class name for the possessive compounds in Pānini. Section 3 accounts for tatpurusa– in Veda (and in the Vyākarana as denominating example for determinative compounds). The paper analyses the limited attestation of the words in Veda, their constellation in the Black YV (particularly the Taittir ya school) and its implications for Pānini’s and his predecessors use of Vedic sources.