[Y-Indology] Consonant Sandhi and Asiddhatva

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Dear List:

 

I am actually developing a Sandhi Software and it will take any two pair of

words and give their 'Sandhi-ed' form, for example 'him' + 'Alaya' will be

converted to 'himAlaya'.

 

What I need is a book which has done an exhaustive survey of Sandhis and gives a

Comprehensive account.

 

Currently I am basing my work on Laghu SK with Bhaimi Vyakhya and

Vedanga-Prakasha: Sandhi by Swami Dayanand Saraswati.

 

However, they are proving inadequate. For example, when I enter ac + anta, my

software converts it into akanta by 'choH kuH'. However, it should be ajanta by

jhalam jasho'ante but I dont understand why exactly.

 

So I really donot understand order of priority of the sutras. And also how the

Tripadi blocks rules.If this book which some one is going to suggest will

explain it from the programmer's point of view, will help my software to be

error free.

 

Many thanks.

 

Chetan Pandey

 

 

 

Dear Chetan,

 

Within the tripAdI of the aSTAdhyAyI, a previous rule does not

recognize the operation/product of a subsequent rule (pUrvam prati

param kAryam asiddham). If 's' in rAmas before zete were to undergo

P.8.4.54 (khari ca), it would be replaced by nothing other than 's',

since this 's' is is part of the group designated by 'car' (khari pare

jhalAm caraH syuH). But this operation is not recognized by the

earlier rule P.8.4.39, and it goes ahead and changes 's' to 'z'. This

'z' is recognized by the subsequent rule P.8.4.54. Here, even if it

were to apply, 'z' would be replaced by nothing other than 'z', since

's' is included in both 'jhal' and 'car'. The rule vipratiSedhe

param kAryam does not extend to the tripAdI section of the aSTAdhyAyI,

and historically has a limited scope within the ekasamjJAdhikAra

(AkaDArAd ekA saMjJA). It is Patanjali who extends its scope to the

rest of the aSTAdhyAyI, creating more problems in the process.

Solving those problems leads him into proposing a strange

interpretation of 'para' in 'param kAryam' as being equivalent of

'iSTa' (parazabdaH iSTavAcI), thus the rule coming to mean: when two

rules conflict, apply the desirable rule. This of course is not what

Panini had in his mind. Best,

 

Madhav Deshpande

 

 

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