Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4: Essays Chiefly on the Science of LanguageMüller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
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Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4: Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language
Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
Comparative linguistics; Folklore; Literature -- History and criticism; Mythology; Religions
We next come to a large number of datives, ablatives, or genitives, and
accusatives of verbal nouns in +tu+. This +tu+ occurs in Sanskrit in
abstract nouns such as +gâtú+, going, way, etc., in Latin in
_adven-tus_, etc. As these forms have been often treated, and as some of
them occur frequently in later Sanskrit also, it will suffice to give
one example of each:--
Dative in +tave+: +gántave+, to go, I. 46, 7.
Old form in +ai+: +gántavái+, X. 95, 14.
Genitive in +toḥ+: +dâtoḥ+, governed by +îśe+, VII. 4, 6.
Ablative in +toḥ+: +gántoḥ+, I. 89, 9.
Accusative in +tum+: +gántum+. This is the supine in _tum_ in Latin.
CASES OF VERBAL NOUNS IN _TVA_.
Next follow cases of verbal nouns in +tvá+, the accent being on the
suffix.
Datives in +tvấya+: +hatvấya+, X. 84, 2.
Instrumental in +tvấ+: +hatvấ+, I. 100, 18.
Older form in +tvî́+: +hatvî́+, II. 17, 6; +gatvî́+, IV. 41, 5.
DATIVES IN _DHAI_ AND _DHYAI_.
I have left to the end datives in +dhai+ and +dhyai+, which properly
belong to the datives in +ai+, treated before, but differ from them as
being datives of compound nouns. As from +máyaḥ+, delight, we have
+mayaskará+, delight-making, +mayobhú+, delight-causing, and
constructions like +máyo dádhe+, so from +váyas+, life, vigor, we have
+váyaskṛ́t+, life-giving, and constructions like +váyo dhât+. From +dhâ+
we can frame two substantival frame, +dhâ+ and +dhi-s+, _e.g._
+puro-dhâ+, and +puro-dhis+, like +vi-dhi-s+. As an ordinary
substantive, +purodhâ+ takes the feminine termination _â_, and is
declined like +śivâ+. But if the verbal base remains at the end of a
compound without the feminine suffix, a compound like vayodhâ would form
its dative vayodhe (Grammar, § 239); and as in analogous cases we found
old datives in ai, instead of _e_, e.g. +parâdai+, nothing can be said
against +vayodhai+, as a Vedic dative of +vayodhâ+. The dative of
+purodhi+ would be +purodhaye+, but here again, as, besides forms like
dṛśaye, we met with datives, such as +ityai+, +rohishyai+, there is no
difficulty in admitting an analogous dative of +purodhi+, viz.,
+purodhyai+.
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