Praudhamanorama 12_246

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As for what they explained: "The meaning is: ending in those sounds ṣ and n that exist at the time of original enunciation; and like the phrase 'the teacher's household of Devadatta', it is not an uncombinable compound because the relation is with the aggregate"; that is merely superficial. For having explained the relation with the component, to say that it is due to a relation with the aggregate is a mutual contradiction. Moreover, where the subordinate word-meaning is correlative, there are two modes: one is that even a dependent word enters into a compound. The second mode is that the relation belongs only to the principal word-meaning, such as household, with Devadatta just as with the teacher; and that [relation] with the teacher is pregnant with origination, whereas with Devadatta it consists in being originated by his teacher, that is, it is mediated by the teacher. And it has been stated by Hari: