Shringaraprakasha 1.p1.10

1.p1.10

1.12 Particles such as *ca* are specific indeclinables because they express non-substance meanings through their non-reception of the causes for the application of words such as universal genus, and, devoid of the capacities of gender and number, fall upon various meanings; as has been said: 'The particles beginning with *ca* [are termed *nipāta*] when not expressing a substance' (Pāṇini 1.4.57). They indeed possess the meaning of injunction, commendatory statement, restatement, prohibition, injunction-and-prohibition, and neither-injunction-nor-prohibition. Injunction is [...]; censure, praise, dejection, joy, envy, and wonder constitute commendatory statement; recollection, comparison, concession, subsequent inquiry, another's action, and ancient precedent constitute restatement; prevention, warding off, refutation, malice, reviling, and restraint constitute prohibition; address, compassion, deliberation, question, alternative view, and stating a reason constitute injunction-and-prohibition; padding a word, filling out a verse-quarter, completing a sentence, ornamental completion, sentence-ornament, and refinement of a word constitute neither-injunction-nor-prohibition. / 1.13 Among them, *om*, *atha*, *svasti*, *diṣṭyā*, *naha*, *sma*, *śaśvat*, *kañcit*, [and] *iti* serve the purpose of auspiciousness; as in: *om*, 'I praise Agni, placed in front...'; 'Now therefore the desire to know Brahman'; 'May the Aśvins and Bhaga create well-being for us'; 'By good fortune you prosper'; 'Certainly, sir, you enjoy pleasures'; 'After an hour you made the mat'; 'We shall study constantly'; 'We shall study a little'; and so forth. *atha*, *atho*, 'You will come'; 'The rule applies so far as possible'; 'Following the sage Kaṇāda'; 'Again morning, and again night'; 'Afterwards the two of us'; 'doubled by separation'; 'And again she said: "You are on the bed"'; and so forth. *yāvat*, *tāvat*, *nanu*, 'I am going, sir'; 'Study, student, the lightning flashes on the other side'; 'Come, cook!'; 'Indeed, do not cook'; 'Alas!'; 'Command!'; 'The sun created everywhere' (Ṛgveda 2.28.4)—the meaning is, the sun brought forth on all sides.