Re: [INDOLOGY] pracodayāt in gāyatrī mantras

[Gérard Huet]

Hello Harry

In my morphological generator, this is tagged active benedictive:

{ ben. ac. sg. 3 }[pra <https://sanskrit.inria.fr/DICO/42.html#pra>-cud <https://sanskrit.inria.fr/DICO/26.html#cud>]  <>

Cf here <https://sanskrit.inria.fr/cgi-bin/SKT/sktgraph.cgi?lex=SH&st=t&us=f&cp=t&text=pracodayaat&t=VH&topic=&mode=g&corpmode=&corpdir=&sentno=>. Press on the red rectangle. 

Whitney§837 calls it active precative, a variant terminology. But he analyses it as an optative mode of the root aorist and claims Vedic middle forms. 

Gérard


> Le 18 mars 2019 à 21:16, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> a écrit :
> 
> Dear list members,
> 
> What is the verbal category of pracodayāt in gāyatrī mantras . For example :
>  ekadantāya vidmahe
> vakratuṇḍāya dhīmahi
> tan no dantī pracodayāt
> 
> Is it a causative subjunctive similar to the example in Whitney's grammar section 1043  dhārayāt
> or is it a benedictive/precative?  Is there such a thing as a causative precative?
> 
> Thanks,
> Harry Spier
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