Shringaraprakasha 10.p1.6

10.p1.6

158–162 The statement that number is related only to a syntactic role (kāraka), not to the action and the like. The threefold division of the agent according to independence and so forth. Examples of an independent agent expressed by its own case-inflection and expressed by another case-inflection. Examples of an unfree agent as well, distinguished by manifested activity. The division of the middle-voice agent (karmakartṛ). 163–166 Examples of intensified and unintensified objects. Etymological analysis of the term ‘object’ (karman). The threefold division of the object according to that which is brought about (nirvartya), modified (vikārya), and reached (prāpya). Their examples in respective order. 167–171 Etymological analysis of the term ‘instrument’ (karaṇa). The threefold division of the instrument as external, internal, and external-cum-internal. The internal division of the external and others, and their examples as specified. Etymological analysis of the term ‘recipient’ (sampradāna), and its threefold nature. The example of a recipient pervaded by the object of the verb ‘to give’ (dā). 172–175 Examples of a recipient pervaded by the object of an action and so forth. Etymological analysis of the term ‘ablation’ (apādāna), and its threefold nature. Examples of an ablative whose domain is abandoned, not abandoned, or specified. The twofold division of an ablative whose domain is explicitly mentioned, and its examples. 176–179 The twofold division of an ablative whose action is implied, and its two examples. Etymological analysis of the term ‘locus’ (adhikaraṇa). The threefold division of the locus as cognitive/thematic (vaiṣayika), contactual/spatial (aupaśleṣika), and causal (naimittika). The division of each, and their examples. 180 The twofold division of the causal locus as pure and mixed, and their respective examples. 181–182 The causative affix (ṇic) as expressing the prompter's activity. The objection that the meaning of the causative affix is directly delimited by the meaning of the verbal root, and its refutation. 183–184 Examination of the inquiry into the fixed determination of the agent brought into proximity by the action. Demonstration that injunction alone is the meaning of an affix; another view therein. 185–187 In the view of productive operation (bhāvanā), the objection concerning the unfitness of the plural in [the phrase] “of the syntactic roles” (kārakāṇām). The resolution offered by certain [scholars] to that very [objection]. The nature of an auxiliary addition belonging to qualifying attributes and so forth.