Sandhi Question

[Phoenix 0]

Hello,

 

I am new to this forum and, since I am studying Sanskrit on my own in preparation for grad school, am overjoyed to find this community!

 

My question is: according to which rule of vowel gradation and/or internal sandhi does "Siva" become "Saiva" and "VisnuVaisnava"?

 

Thanks for your help!

 

Phoenix

 

P.S. Anyone else using Madhav Deshpande's "Samskrtasubodhini" (U of Mich. P) as a primary study text?

[Jagat 1]

vriddhi

[Tarun 6]

But what is a good English translation for vRddhi?

Kizor - Kaizor; vidhi - vaidhi; DhRtarASTra - DhartarAstrAH;

What about om ~ aum? now u see it (a u), now u don't (o)?

What about all these BanglabhASa nicknames? :

Gadai, Jagai, Nitai, Nimai, Papai, Madhai, Ramai, Rai, Sai

[Guest guest]

The short answer is here -- http://www.sanskrit-sanscrito.com.ar/english/sanskrit9intro.html.

 

It is the Taddhita affix.

 

Here is a quote from Gabriel, one of the men in the Argentinian group who makes that website. (Not me).

 

"The rule says that each time one applies a Taddhita affix, the first vowel changes it's form to "Vriddhi" or extended. The extended form continues adding "a" two times to the intial short vowel, thus: i + a = e; e + a = ai (simple rules of Sandhi or Combination).

 

"So I've arrived at "shaiva". Now I remove the "a" final: "shaiv". Good, but it so happens that the affix that I am going to add is again "a", so it is going to seem that nothing changed... but it is not so, since an entire grammatical procedure was performed, ¿you understand? This affix is frequently used and gives the sense of "son of, follower of, belonging to, descending of, etc."

 

"In this way, I add the affix: shaiv + a = shaiva ("son, follower or descending of Shivá, or belonging to Shivá, etc. etc." --According to the context--). Well, ready.

 

"The Taddhita affixes are used a great deal and always with nouns. A lot of names of children, descendents or followers can be the point of departure to deduce the name of the ancestors or master. For example: Bauddha (follower of Buddha... again the same one afijo "a"), Partha --an epíteto of Árjuna in the Bhagavadgiitaa -- (son of Prithaa), etc. ..." -- Gabriel

[Guest guest]

Sorry, bad link. You have to start from the home page.

 

http://www.sanskrit-sanscrito.com.ar

 

Choose Sanskrit from the top left (after entering the site), then Lesson 9 from the drop down for the explanation.

[Guest guest]

Oh, what a cool answer!. That guy must be a genius :-)!

Just kidding.

 

Gabriel

(Sanskrit&Sánscrito)