[Advaita-l] A Small Composition
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Thu Mar 11 21:55:20 CST 2010
Vidyasankar Sundaresan svidyasankar at hotmail.com wrote:
>Isn't verb root math is primarily conjugated as per the 9th group, so
>as to give mathnAmi for uttama purusha ekavacana? Usually, the root
>manth is described as a stronger form of root math, but I have seen
>1st group like conjugation with math itself (mathati etc). In that case,
>mathayAmi should technically be allowable for causative, although I
>admit it looks a little strange. manthayAmi would of course seem to be
>the most acceptable usage.
The dhAtupATha has manth viloDane in both the first (bhVAdi) and ninth (kryAdi)
gaNas. mathnAmi is an acceptable usage. So is mathAmi. The mAdhavIya dhAtuVR^itti,
for example, lists manthayati as a causative form. The BrihaddhAturUpAvali by
T R Krishnacharya, available at the Digital Library of India, also lists manthayate.
The form mathayAmi may be suspect. Please see below.
>I notice that the Monier Williams dictionary says the form mAthayati
>is found in the mahAbhArata, which also seems a bit strange. Why the
>dIrgha in the first vowel?
The general rule for forming causative verb stems is to use what grammar books call
the "gunated" form and add "aya", if the root ends in a consonant. If the root ends
in a vowel, then the root is "vriddhied" and "aya" is added to form the stem. There are
exceptions. I mention a few. The root gam (to go) does not follow the "gunated" form.
So we have gamayati, etc. Roots such as ranj, and manth too, do not use the
"gunated" form. We have ranjayati and manthayati.
For example, to get the causal stem for the root budh, one first
gets the "gunated" form bodh. Then aya is added before all terminations, giving
bodhayati, etc. This rule may have been followed to derive the stem mAthaya in the
mahAbhArata case, suggesting the formation gunated math (mAth) + aya. The
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