Re: [INDOLOGY] pracodayāt in gāyatrī mantras

[Harry Spier]

Thank you Gerard.  Very impressive!!

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 5:24 PM Gérard Huet <Gerard.Huet at inria.fr> wrote:

> 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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