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Shringaraprakasha 5.p1.15

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5.p1.15

For example: ṭac and ḍac in a name, as in 'Bhadrabhūti' and 'Devadatta'; 'hastāḥ puroḍāḥ'. The accusative [is used] in a Brāhmaṇa: 'grāsyas tadahaḥ sahāyān dīvyeyuḥ' ('they should play dice with companions on that day for a mouthful of food'); 'he gambles for a first-calf heifer'; the affix vun in a benediction: 'may he live! — a living one'; 'may he rejoice! — a rejoicing one'. The particle māṅ in reviling, and the affix anyan after the negative particle nañ in reviling: 'May he not live, who lives even while scorched by the misery of others' contempt! May there be non-birth for him who causes affliction to his mother!' 5.11. In the same way, others are also to be understood, such as envy, approval, anger, censure, intimidation, distress, type, difficulty, alternation, desert, and emergence. Among these, envy is as in: 'Little boy, little boy, handsome one, handsome one, your handsomeness is empty!' Approval is as in: 'Little boy, little boy, handsome one, handsome one, you are splendid indeed!' Anger is as in: 'Boy, boy, undisciplined one, undisciplined one, now you will understand, wretched fellow!' Censure is as in: 'Little spear, little spear, little staff, little staff, your capacity is empty!' Intimidation is as in: 'Thief, thief, outcaste, outcaste, I will strike you down!' Distress is as in: 'Departed, departed! Lost, lost! Dear one, dear one!' — someone afflicted by departure and the like employs a single word [repeatedly]. Type is as in: 'somewhat clever', 'somewhat frightened' — this occurs when a lesser quality is compared with a fully realized quality. Non-difficulty is as in: 'he gives with ease and difficulty' or 'he gives with pleasure and displeasure' — the meaning is, he gives without being troubled. Alternation and the rest are as in: 'it is your turn to sleep'; 'you deserve the eating of sugarcane'; 'you owe me the eating of sugarcane'; 'the eating of sugarcane arose'. And this entire elaboration of qualifying conditions is described as threefold alone: a qualifying condition residing in a substance, a qualifying condition residing in an attribute, and a miscellaneous qualifying condition. Among these: in the sense of vrīhi ('rice') and vatsa ('calf'), after kṛ, the affix in [occurs] with stamba and śakṛt; with stamba and karṇa, after jap, [the affix ac occurs] in the sense of an elephant and a slanderer, and so forth. A qualifying condition residing in a substance is as in: / 'In the field rice forms clumps, and in the house a calf makes dung; / in a kingdom a person whispers in ears, and in the forest an elephant wanders intoxicated.'

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