[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana) › [General works and doxographies](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all) › [Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha~en-mt) › 13.16 # Sarvadarshanasangraha 13.16 English (machine translation) 13.16 - **Language:** English ### [13.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha~en-mt.13.16) \[we reply:\] it is not so, because we do not accept that the understanding of words is to be accomplished by word-for-word recitation, and because when grammatical rules possessing general and particular forms are applied all at once, like a rain-cloud, to illustrative forms that admit the conceptual division of base and affix, one observes the instruction of many words \[simultaneously\]. For instance: by the single general rule, 'In the sense of an object, \[the affix\] aṇ \[occurs\]' (Pāṇini 3.2.1), when the affix aṇ is applied to any verbal root preceded by an object-word, one observes the instruction of many words, such as kumbhakāraḥ ('potter') and kāṇḍalāvaḥ ('stalk-cutter'). Likewise, by the single particular rule, 'After \[a verbal root ending in\] ā without a prefix, \[the affix\] ka \[occurs\]' (Pāṇini 3.2.18), when the affix ka is applied to a verbal root ending in ā, one observes the instruction of many words, such as dhānyadaḥ ('grain-giver') and dhanadaḥ ('wealth-giver'). The passage beginning 'Bṛhaspati \[spoke\] to Indra' is an explanatory praise whose purpose is to demonstrate the impossibility of word-for-word recitation. - [Previous: 13.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha~en-mt.13.15) - [Next: 13.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha~en-mt.13.17) - [Up: 13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha~en-mt.13) ## Translations (1) - [The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha, or Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha~en-cowell.13.p12) — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, English ## Linked texts (1) - [Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.13.16) — Mādhava, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha~en-mt.13.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha~en-mt.13.16) · Pramāṇa