Agnipurana 355
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355.1
Skanda said:
I shall explain the three kinds of taddhita suffixes; such is the general application:
with suffix ‘la’, ‘vyaṃsalaḥ’ and ‘vatsalaḥ’ are formed; with ‘ilac’, however, ‘phenilam’;
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‘lomaśaḥ’ with ‘śa’; ‘pāmanaḥ’ with ‘na’; with ‘ilac’, however, ‘picchilam’;
with ‘aṇ’, ‘prājñaḥ’ and ‘ārcakaḥ’ are formed; from ‘danta’ with ‘urac’, ‘danturaḥ’;
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with ‘ra’, ‘madhuram’ and ‘suśiram’ are formed; with ‘ra’, such a form as ‘keśaraḥ’;
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with ‘ya’, ‘hiraṇyam’; with ‘va’, ‘mālavaḥ’; with ‘valac’, ‘rajasvalaḥ’ is formed;
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with ‘ini’, ‘dhanī’, ‘karī’, ‘hastī’; ‘dhanikaḥ’ is stated with ‘ṭhan’;
with ‘vini’, ‘payasvī’ and ‘māyāvī’; with ‘yuc’, ‘ūrṇāyuḥ’ is stated;
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with ‘min’, ‘vāgmī’; with ‘ālac’, ‘vācālaḥ’; and ‘aṭac’ is stated;
‘phalinaḥ’, ‘barhiṇaḥ’, ‘kekī’; and likewise ‘vṛndārakaḥ’ with ‘kan’;
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with ‘āluc’, one who cannot endure cold is ‘śītāluḥ’, and such is ‘śvāluḥ’;
and with ‘āluc’ is ‘himāluḥ’, likewise one who cannot endure snow;
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the form from ‘vāta’ with ‘ulac’ is ‘vātulaḥ’; and in the non-patronymic sense:
‘vāsiṣṭhaḥ’, ‘kauravaḥ’; residing [there] is ‘pāñcālaḥ’, this is his residence;
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dwelling there is ‘māthuraḥ’; he who knows or studies is ‘cāndrakaḥ’;
he who knows the inverted order is ‘kramakaḥ’; the man who has traversed is ‘kauśakaḥ’;
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a field suitable for growing panic seeds is ‘praiyaṅgavīnam’ with ‘khañ’;
‘maudgīnam’ and ‘kaudravīṇam’; and ‘vaidehaḥ’ in a non-patronymic sense;
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with ‘iñ’, ‘dākṣiḥ’ and ‘dāśarathiḥ’; with ‘kañ’, ‘nārāyaṇa’ and the like;
with ‘phañ’ is ‘āśvāyanaḥ’; and with ‘yañ’, ‘gārgyaḥ’ and ‘vātsyaḥ’;
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with ‘ḍhak’ are ‘vainateya’ and the like; and ‘cāṭakeraḥ’ with ‘erak’;
with ‘ḍhrak’, the form is ‘gaudherakaḥ’; and ‘gaudhāraḥ’ is stated with ‘ārak’;
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‘kṣatriyaḥ’ with ‘gha’; ‘kulīnaḥ’ with ‘kha’; with ‘ṇya’, ‘kairavya’ and others are taught;
with ‘yat’, ‘mūrdhanya’, ‘mukhya’, and the like; such is the formation ‘sugandhiḥ’;
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after ‘tārakā’ and others, with ‘itac’, ‘nabhastārakita’ and the like;
with ‘anaṅ’ are ‘kuṇḍodhnaḥ’ [or feminine ‘kuṇḍodhnī’], ‘puṣpadhanvā’, and ‘sudhanvā’;
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with ‘cañcup’ is ‘vittacañcuḥ’ in the sense of known for his wealth;
with ‘caṇap’ is ‘keśacaṇaḥ’; with ‘rūpa’ is ‘paṭarūpam’;
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with ‘īyasun’, ‘paṭīyān’ is formed; with ‘tarap’, ‘akṣataram’ and the like;
and ‘pacatitarām’ with ‘tarap’; with ‘tamap’, ‘aṭatitamām’ as well;
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‘mṛdvītamā’; with ‘kalpap’, ‘indrakalpaḥ’ and ‘arkakalpaḥ’;
with ‘deśīyar’, ‘rājadeśīyaḥ’; with ‘deśya’, the form ‘deśya’ and the like;
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with ‘jātīyar’, ‘paṭujātīyaḥ’; with ‘mātrac’, ‘jānumātram’;
with ‘dvayasac’, ‘ūrudvayasam’; and with ‘daghnac’, ‘ūrudaghnam’;
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with ‘tayaṭ’ is ‘pañcatayaḥ’; ‘dauvārikaḥ’ is stated with ‘ṭhak’.
The general usage has thus been spoken; now the taddhita called indeclinable:
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from ‘yasmāt’, ‘yataḥ’ with ‘tasil’; with ‘tral’, ‘yatra’ and ‘tatra’ are stated;
in this time is ‘adhunā’; and with ‘dānīm’ is ‘idānīm’;
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in all [time] is ‘sarvadā’ with ‘dā’; at that time is stated with ‘rhil’,
‘tarhi’; ‘iha’ in this time with ‘ha’; and ‘karhi’ at which time;
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‘yathā’ with ‘thāl’; ‘katham’ with ‘thamu’; in the eastern direction one may gather;
with ‘astāt’ is ‘pūrvastāt’; from the east are ‘pūrvādigrāmaṇīyakāḥ’;
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one may move about or go in front (‘purastāt’); ‘sadyas’ is stated for ‘on the very same day’;
in the previous year is ‘parut’ with ‘ut’; in the year before that, ‘parāri’;
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in this year is the form ‘aiṣamaḥ’, stated with ‘samas’;
with ‘edyavi’, ‘paredyavi’ is stated in the sense of on the following day;
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with ‘dyus’, ‘adya’ is for ‘on this day’, and likewise ‘pūrvedyuḥ’ with ‘aidyusi’;
one may dwell in the southern direction: both ‘dakṣiṇāt’ and ‘dakṣiṇā’ [are used];
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one may dwell in the northern direction: both ‘uttarāt’ and ‘uttarā’ [are used];
one may dwell above: from the upper is formed ‘upariṣṭāt’ with ‘riṣṭāt’;
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‘uttareṇa’ is spoken by the father; and with ‘āc’ is ‘dakṣiṇā’;
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with ‘āhāu’, one may dwell ‘dakṣiṇāhi’; and in two manners is ‘dvidhā’ with ‘dhā’;
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with ‘dhyamuñ’, ‘do you make it unified’ (‘aikadhyam’); such is ‘dvaidham’ with ‘dhamuñ’;
in two manners is ‘dvidhā’ with ‘dhāc’, as well as ‘āsusuratara’;
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particles are called taddhita suffixes; a taddhita suffix denotes state of being:
the state of being sharp is ‘paṭutvam’ with ‘tva’; with ‘tal’, ‘paṭutā’ is stated;
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and ‘prathimā’ from ‘pṛthu’ with ‘imanic’; from ‘sukha’, ‘saukhyam’ is stated with ‘ṣyañ’;
that of a thief is ‘steyam’ with ‘yat’; that of a friend is stated as ‘sakhyam’ with ‘ya’;
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the state of a monkey is ‘kāpeyam’; ‘sainyam’ and ‘pathyam’ are stated with ‘ya’;
‘āśvam’ and ‘kaumārakam’ with ‘aṇ’; and the form ‘yauvanam’ with ‘aṇ’;
‘ācāryakam’ is stated with ‘kaṇ’; in this manner other taddhitas also are formed.
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Thus ends the three hundred and fifty-fifth chapter, called the Established Forms of Secondary Nominal Suffixes in Grammar, in the Mahāpurāṇa spoken by Agni.
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Now, the three hundred and fifty-sixth chapter.
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The forms accomplished by the uṇādi [suffixes].
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