[INDOLOGY] dvandva → bahuvrīhi?

[Christian Ferstl]

Dear Dominik,

compounds are rather a matter of syntax than grammar. Speyer, however, 
has no example for a DD used as BV without prefix, possessive suffix 
(-ka?), or an adjective or participle in first position. That makes the 
DD interpretation suspicious, indeed.

Christian

Am 19.03.2025 22:40, schrieb Dr. Dominik A. Haas, BA MA:
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> Thank you for your replies! It would make a lot if sense if
> _akṣamālāṅgulīyakaḥ_ was a dvandva-bahuvrīhi. Neverthesss,
> if I haven’t overlooked it, the possibility of dvandva-bahuvrīhis
> is not mentioned in the grammars of Whitney, Müller, Macdonell (Vedic
> & Sanskrit), Kale, Mayrhofer, or Gonda, nor do I find it in Tubb’s
> and Boose’s book on scholastic Sanskrit. I would therefore be very
> grateful if you could provide examples. (The examples from the
> Bhagavad-Gītā beginning with _aneka _are karmadhāraya-bahuvrīhis.)
> 
> Thank you again,
> D. Haas
> 
> Am 19.03.2025 um 19:26 schrieb Dr. Dominik A. Haas, BA MA:
> 
>> Dear colleagues,
>> 
>> I have a question: Can dvandvas become bahuvrīhis? Specifically,
>> I’m looking at the compound _akṣamālāṅgulīyakaḥ_. Does it
>> just mean “wearing an _akṣamālā _as a finger ring,” or could
>> it also mean “wearing an _akṣamālā _and a finger ring”? I
>> don’t recall ever seeing a dvandva-bahuvrīhi, but in this case it
>> would make much more sense, which is why I wonder if this is perhaps
>> a rare, non-standard form. Of course, it’s also possible that
>> it’s just a misspelling of _akṣamālo ’ṅgulīyakaḥ_.
>> 
>> Thank you for your time and best regards,
>> Dominik A. Haas
>> 
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