Praudhamanorama p81

p81

'A dual [ending in ī, ū, or e]': the idea is that, because the mention of the word 'anta' ('ending in') in the rule 'suptiṅantam' (pā. sū. 1.4.14) indicates that 'in an operation defining a technical name, when an affix is mentioned, there is no comprehension of that which ends in it.' Therefore, it does not apply here: kumāryāgāram ('the house of two girls'), vadhvagāram ('the house of two daughters-in-law')—from kumāryoḥ vadhvoḥ ca āgāram. And this is clear in the Mahābhāṣya and elsewhere. But the view of the older grammarian that 'that which ends in a dual affix would be pragṛhya' is merely an error. / 'harī etau': here the Śākala operation does not apply. As has been stated, this is because of the inclusion of the word 'nityam' in the rule 'plutapragṛhyā--' (pā. sū. 6.1.125). / On this, the Vṛttikāra, having cited: 'A prohibition must be stated for maṇīva and the like', gave as examples: maṇīva, rodasīva, dampatīva, jampatīva. And Kaiyaṭa, Haradatta, and others hold that this is not authoritative, because it was not stated by the triad of sages. Such being the case, he justifies the Mahābhārata usage: 'Like two bells (maṇīva) of a camel dangle my two dear calves'—'in the sense of iva': the word va. The Medinī lexicon says: 'One should understand va in the sense of pracetas, and as an indeclinable in the sense of iva.' Because authorities have quoted the usage of Kālidāsa, 'śātravaṃ va papuryaśaḥ' ('they drank their enemy's fame, as it were'), when explaining the passage in the Amarakośa: 'va, vā, yathā, tathā, eva, evaṃ in the sense of similarity'; and because one sees usages such as 'kādambakhaṇḍitadalāni va paṅkajāni'. As for the variant reading 'vadvā yathā tathā' etc., that is improper, because the secondary affix vati is unsuitable in the context of the Nāmaliṅgānuśāsana, and because within synonyms of groups of offspring etc., aṇ, phiñ, vuñ, etc., are not stated. / 'adaso māt' (pā. sū. 1.1.12): with the intention that here the vowel e does not continue, because it is impossible, he says—