agnir iva raaja.h

[Madhav Deshpande]

I detected that the citation "agnir iva raaja.h" is at least as old as
Bha.t.toji Diik.sita's Zabdakaustubha where he says: agnir iva raaja.h
vaayur iva paaza.h ity aadi parizi.s.ta-udaahara.nam sa.mgacchate.  This
could refer to some text called Parizi.s.ta or may simply mean "remaining
examples.  In any case, it looks like a citation and begs for a source.
Best,
                                                Madhav Deshpande


On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Madhav Deshpande wrote:

> In his commentary Baalabodhinii on Mamma.ta's Kaavyaprakaaza (7th reprint,
> 1965, p. 557), Vaamanaacaarya Jha.lkiikar cites a passage "agnir iva
> raaja.h" to illustrate the function of the so-called iva-samaasa.  In his
> argument, not only is agnir-iva a compound, the bigger compound is
> inclusive of -raaja.h as well, and this accounts for the a-stem treatment
> of raaja.h with the Paninian samaasaanta affix -.tac (Panini:
> raajaaha.hsakhibhya.s .tac).  I have looked all over for the source of the
> passage agnir iva raaja.h with Vedic indices etc. without success.  Any
> further insight on the passage is welcome.  Best,
>
>                                                 Madhav Deshpande
>