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elaborate treatment of the two classes of Indeclinables,
Upasarga and Nipata, including a discussion of their etymo...
logical meaning, their ancillary or independent character
so far as their meaningfulness is concerned, and a list of
them with their sub-classes, meanings and illustrations.
Starting with a meagre number of prepositions and par.
ticles, the concept of the Indeclinable got enlarged into
'Avyaya', 'that which does not undergo a modification',
in the hands of Panini who brought under it several
other categories of words of this kind including Com
pounds and Derivatives (I.i. 37-41; I.iv. 56-98). The
terms Upasarga, Nipata, Auyaya etc. are also elucidated
further in the Värttikas and the Mahabha sva and the
commentaries on the latter. The Väkyapadiya discusses
them in Kanda II.
But the most detailed and systematic treatment of
Auyayas, with meanings, discussions and illustrations, is
what Bhoja gives not only in his grammatical work the
Sarasvatikanthabharaṇa (T. S. S.), but also in the first
chapter of his encyclopaedic Srngara Prakāśa. In the
latter work, he classifies Avyaya into six kinds: Anyaya,
Nipata, Gati, Upasarga, Karma-pravacaniya and Vibhakti-
pratirupaka each of which he further subdivides. The
whole treatment which includes discussion of the
question of their Vacakatva and Dyotakatva extends to
over a dozen pages. In the former work on pure
grammar, the subject is dealt with in I. i. 117-179.
See T. S. S. 117, pp. 31-60. text and Närayana's
commentary.
At the end of the classical period, when a good
number of full commentaries and sub.commentaries
elaborate treatment of the two classes of Indeclinables,
Upasarga and Nipata, including a discussion of their etymo...
logical meaning, their ancillary or independent character
so far as their meaningfulness is concerned, and a list of
them with their sub-classes, meanings and illustrations.
Starting with a meagre number of prepositions and par.
ticles, the concept of the Indeclinable got enlarged into
'Avyaya', 'that which does not undergo a modification',
in the hands of Panini who brought under it several
other categories of words of this kind including Com
pounds and Derivatives (I.i. 37-41; I.iv. 56-98). The
terms Upasarga, Nipata, Auyaya etc. are also elucidated
further in the Värttikas and the Mahabha sva and the
commentaries on the latter. The Väkyapadiya discusses
them in Kanda II.
But the most detailed and systematic treatment of
Auyayas, with meanings, discussions and illustrations, is
what Bhoja gives not only in his grammatical work the
Sarasvatikanthabharaṇa (T. S. S.), but also in the first
chapter of his encyclopaedic Srngara Prakāśa. In the
latter work, he classifies Avyaya into six kinds: Anyaya,
Nipata, Gati, Upasarga, Karma-pravacaniya and Vibhakti-
pratirupaka each of which he further subdivides. The
whole treatment which includes discussion of the
question of their Vacakatva and Dyotakatva extends to
over a dozen pages. In the former work on pure
grammar, the subject is dealt with in I. i. 117-179.
See T. S. S. 117, pp. 31-60. text and Närayana's
commentary.
At the end of the classical period, when a good
number of full commentaries and sub.commentaries