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In addition to the above, there are the lexicons
like the Amarkosa, which also form sources for Avyaya:
and their meanings.
In modern times, works on Vedic Grammar like
Macdonell's A Vedic Grammar for Students (Oxford, 19 16.
pp. 208-253) and works on Sanskrit Grammar in
general have sections on the Indeclinables and besides
these, there have also been a few special studies of the
Indeclinables like Barend Faddegon's 'The Grammar
of the Indeclinables" and Isiodore Dyen's 'The Sanskrit
Indeclinables of the Hindu Grammarians and Lexico.
grophers". Faddegon's study which extends to 48 page,
(pp. 1-48) deals with Panini's treatment of Avyayas, their
classification and terminology in a very clear manner,
with citations of parallel examples from English, the
study being, as he says, an aid to his effort to understand
the Hindu spirit. For, according to him, Panini is an
effective key to this spirit. The latter, the dissertation
of Dyen, gives within a short compass a historical view
and the lists of the Indeclinables under the different
classes, Prādi, Urya di and so on, according to the
different sources.
In the present effort, nearly fifty sources have
been used for the 893 Indeclinables that are set forth
alphabetically. Kşirasvāmin, Vardhamāna, the lea-
ding works of the Paņiniyan system up to the Siddhānta
1. In his collection Studies on Panini's Grammar', Ams-
terdam, 1936.
2. Supplement to Language, the Linguistic Society of
America, Vol. 15, No. 3, July-September 1939.
In addition to the above, there are the lexicons
like the Amarkosa, which also form sources for Avyaya:
and their meanings.
In modern times, works on Vedic Grammar like
Macdonell's A Vedic Grammar for Students (Oxford, 19 16.
pp. 208-253) and works on Sanskrit Grammar in
general have sections on the Indeclinables and besides
these, there have also been a few special studies of the
Indeclinables like Barend Faddegon's 'The Grammar
of the Indeclinables" and Isiodore Dyen's 'The Sanskrit
Indeclinables of the Hindu Grammarians and Lexico.
grophers". Faddegon's study which extends to 48 page,
(pp. 1-48) deals with Panini's treatment of Avyayas, their
classification and terminology in a very clear manner,
with citations of parallel examples from English, the
study being, as he says, an aid to his effort to understand
the Hindu spirit. For, according to him, Panini is an
effective key to this spirit. The latter, the dissertation
of Dyen, gives within a short compass a historical view
and the lists of the Indeclinables under the different
classes, Prādi, Urya di and so on, according to the
different sources.
In the present effort, nearly fifty sources have
been used for the 893 Indeclinables that are set forth
alphabetically. Kşirasvāmin, Vardhamāna, the lea-
ding works of the Paņiniyan system up to the Siddhānta
1. In his collection Studies on Panini's Grammar', Ams-
terdam, 1936.
2. Supplement to Language, the Linguistic Society of
America, Vol. 15, No. 3, July-September 1939.