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A REVIEW ARTICLE\* 1. This new volume of the veteran Nirukta scholar contains eleven numbered notes (X -XX) and one article which carries no number. 1 All of them had been, or were about to be, published elsewhere. Together they contain interesting new points of view on quite a number of the problems connected with the Nirukta. I shall briefly describe them, with comments where necessary. Note X ('AnOpa') argues convincingly that Y~ska knew the derivation ofprdcfna (< pra-c-fna < pra-ac-fna; in the Nirukta parallel to an~pa < anu-p-a < anu-dp) also found in P~nini 's A.s.tddhydyf. (Cf. w 4, below.) Note XI ('Ardhan~man') shows that ardhanaman (Nir. 1.7) does not mean "synonym of 'half'" (Sarup) but is rather a technical grammatical term which was used by 'some', apparently not for long, to designate the few words 2 which share with ndmans the property of declension, but not accentuation. Note XII ('Vibhakti') attempts to clarify the hitherto obscure sentence yathdrtham, vibhakff.h samnamayet (Nir. 2.1). The solution lies in the word vibhakti which must not here mean 'case termination' but 'division'. The sentence now comes to say that "They [i.e., the divisions of a word into sylla

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Author

Johannes Bronkhorst

Publisher

Brill (ISSN 0019-7246)

Published

1984

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)