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वैदिक व्याकरण
वैदिक व्याकरण
MadhusudanMishra
TherehasbeennoVedicgrammarinanyIndianlanguage.TheVaikikPrakriyaofthe
SiddhantaKaumudiofBhattojiDikshitisaVedicGrammarimproperlysocalled.Theresultis
thattheVedicstudieshavedisappearedfromtheIndianacademy.
ThelabourappliedtothestudyoftheVediclanguagebythewesternscholarshasbeen
tremendousandwonderful.BecausetherewasnoVedicgrammarfromtheIndianschool,the
westernscholarsthemselvesmadethespadeworkandproducedexcellentvedicgrammars.
However,theywereonGreekandLatinmodel.Therefore,thetypicallyoldvedicformswere
nomenclaturedinquiteforeignstyle.EvenifadiligentIndianstudentcouldrecognizetheform,
hecouldnotidentifyitwiththetermsusedbyPanini.WhenthevedicgrammarofMacdonell
wastranslatedintoHindi,itwasreckless.
Itisnecessarytounderstandthemechanismofthewesternvedicgrammarians(which
haditselfundergoneseveralrevisionsfromWhitneytoMacdonell).ForPresentindicative,
thereisLatinPanini,forImperfectLang,forpresentimperativeLot,forpresentoptative
Ling,andforpresentsubjunctiveLet.ThereisLitforPerfectindicative,LungforAorist
indicative,andLritforFutureindicative.Sofarsogood.ButintheoldestlanguageoftheRV,
thereisthePerfectpreteritecalledPluperfect,Pf.Imperative,Pf.OptativeandPf.
Subjunctivefromtheperfectbase.ThereisalsoAoristimperative,optativeandsubjunctive
fromtheAoristbases.AstudentofPaninicannotevenrecognizetheseforms.Thefollowing
equationshavebeencoinedbasedonPanini
Perfectpreterite(Pluperfect):lit+lang
Imperative:lit+lot
Optative:lit+ling
Subjunctive:lit+let
Similarly:
AoristImperative:lung+lot
Optative:lung+ling
Subjunctive:lung+let
Fortheunaugmentedpastformsinimperativesense,thetermsusedinthewestern
grammarsisInjunctive,forwhichwemayuseViniyogaorAagamarahitaAajnaarthaka
bhoota.
ButintheHindiversionofthevedicgrammar,somewrongexplanationsofWhitney
andMacdonell,writtensomehundredyearsago,havealsobeencorrected.
ThreesutrashavebeenaddedinPaninitoexplainthevedicformsinentirety:
34218litoletlotlinglang
34219lungopitrayaaditah
34220aasheerlingcha
Firstpublishedoninternet:962009AD(Aashaadhakrishnadwiteeyaa,Vikramasamvat2066)
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