India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s3.t1.134

c10.s3.t1.134

*DHĀTU* AS *KRIYĀ*- AND *BHĀVA*-DENOTING—The question whether the verbs denote 'becoming' (*Kriyā*) or 'being' (*Bhāva*) was an important one for the grammarians on the ground of its bearing on the eternity of words. Patañjali says that Pāṇini accepted both views in *sūtra Bhūvādayo dhātavaḥ* (I.3.1; I. 258). Taken separately *sūtra* II.3.14 supports that verbs refer to *bhāva* and *sūtra* II.3.15 to *kriyā*.