Praudhamanorama 60_364
English (machine translation) 60_364
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'A verb has becoming (bhāva) as its principal meaning; nouns have substantial entity (sattva) as their principal meaning.'
In sentences such as 'paśya mṛgo dhāvati' ('look, the deer runs'), however, the running whose agent is the deer is the object in the action of seeing; the principal meaning is indeed the action of seeing. And it is said: