Help with a sentence?

Madhav Deshpande mmdesh at UMICH.EDU
Tue Jan 6 13:24:48 UTC 1998


An example of sva as an adjective:
	sve sve karmaNy abhirataH samsiddhiM labhate naraH (Bhagavad
Gita).  The adjectival use of sva is as old as Vedic: uta svayaa tanvaa
saMvade kadaa nv antar varuNe bhuvaani (RV).  In Zakuntala, we find
adjectival use of sva:  saa nindantii svaani bhaagyaani baalaa ...
	Thus there is nothing non-sensical about svayor maataapitroH.
					Madhav Deshpande

On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Rolf Heiner Koch wrote:

> I mean svayoour maataa-pitroor would be without
> sense. Can you give me an example with sva- as an
> adjective?
> -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Jacob Baltuch <jacob.baltuch at EURONET.BE>
> An: INDOLOGY at LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK
> <INDOLOGY at LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK>
> Datum: Dienstag, 6. Januar 1998 05:41
> Betreff: Re: Help with a sentence?
> 
> 
> >Rolf Heiner Koch wrote:
> >
> >>sva is a so called reflexiv pronomina and in
> your
> >>zited sentence
> >>related to kah and therefore is the gen. correct
> >>svayoor is without sense
> >
> >What do you mean "without sense"? Aren't you
> being
> >a bit hasty? The word sva- can also (maybe
> primarily)
> >be used as an adjective.
> >
> 





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