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INTRODUCTION
95
alamkāras, and subdivisions of the alamkāras, that are set forth,
with characteristic Hindu fondness for detail, on the pages of the
Sanskrit works dealing with this subject. I have not attempted
an exhaustive treatment or discussion, because it seems to me
that such would fall rather within the province of a specialist in
this department of Sanskrit studies.
VEDICISMS
Bernheimer, by way of comment on vibhavatu (stanza 33),
points out that the use of bha in the active, with prefix vi, is
almost exclusively Vedic.¹
The combination of final and initial vowels in caturaṛcām
(stanza 40), instead of the more usual caturarcam, is also Vedic,³
and is doubtless employed to meet the requirements of the meter.
The indeclinable particle sam, prosperity,' found in stanza
94, is common in the Veda, but rare in the later language.*
To these there may also be added the rather extensive use-21
instances of the imperative in -tät. This has been discussed
below among the Grammatica Notabiliora, where it is shown
that such forms are not of uncommon occurrence in the Vedic
literature, though rare in the so-called classical period.
GRAMMATICA NOTABILIORA
In the notes to each stanza I have called attention to whatever
might seem of interest to students of Sanskrit grammar, but for
convenience my findings in this line will be grouped together
here.
In case-constructions I have noted, as possibly worthy of
mention, the instrumental of qualification without preposition,
apaghanair and kamdharärdhäir (stanzas 6 and 48 respectively;
1 Carlo Bernheimer, Il Saryaśatakam di Mayūra, p. 19, footnote 1, Li-
vorno, 1905. His comment is: 'Si noti l'uso quasi esclusivamente vedico
di bha attivo con vi.'
* See Whitney, Skt. Grammar, 127, a.
See Monier-Williams, Skt.-Engl. Dict. s.v. fam.
See below, p. 96.
95
alamkāras, and subdivisions of the alamkāras, that are set forth,
with characteristic Hindu fondness for detail, on the pages of the
Sanskrit works dealing with this subject. I have not attempted
an exhaustive treatment or discussion, because it seems to me
that such would fall rather within the province of a specialist in
this department of Sanskrit studies.
VEDICISMS
Bernheimer, by way of comment on vibhavatu (stanza 33),
points out that the use of bha in the active, with prefix vi, is
almost exclusively Vedic.¹
The combination of final and initial vowels in caturaṛcām
(stanza 40), instead of the more usual caturarcam, is also Vedic,³
and is doubtless employed to meet the requirements of the meter.
The indeclinable particle sam, prosperity,' found in stanza
94, is common in the Veda, but rare in the later language.*
To these there may also be added the rather extensive use-21
instances of the imperative in -tät. This has been discussed
below among the Grammatica Notabiliora, where it is shown
that such forms are not of uncommon occurrence in the Vedic
literature, though rare in the so-called classical period.
GRAMMATICA NOTABILIORA
In the notes to each stanza I have called attention to whatever
might seem of interest to students of Sanskrit grammar, but for
convenience my findings in this line will be grouped together
here.
In case-constructions I have noted, as possibly worthy of
mention, the instrumental of qualification without preposition,
apaghanair and kamdharärdhäir (stanzas 6 and 48 respectively;
1 Carlo Bernheimer, Il Saryaśatakam di Mayūra, p. 19, footnote 1, Li-
vorno, 1905. His comment is: 'Si noti l'uso quasi esclusivamente vedico
di bha attivo con vi.'
* See Whitney, Skt. Grammar, 127, a.
See Monier-Williams, Skt.-Engl. Dict. s.v. fam.
See below, p. 96.