[INDOLOGY] privative a with finite verb?

[MALHAR KULKARNI]

See व्याकरणमहाभाष्य on A 6.3.73 and the काशिकावृत्ति on A 2.2.6.

Malhar Kulkarni,
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,
IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai-400076
malhar at hss.iitb.ac.in

On Sat, 11 Oct 2025, 4:54 pm Valerie Roebuck via INDOLOGY, <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> I’m not a Pāņini scholar at all, but I believe there’s an example
> ‘apacasi’, literally, ‘you uncook’, but used in the sense of ‘you’re a
> terrible cook’.
>
> Valerie J Roebuck
> Manchester, UK
>
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> On 11 Oct 2025, at 10:28, Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> In the 2500-line Prajñapāramitā i find expressions such as:
>
> nâtra kiMcid vidhyate nâvidhyate, “here nothing is penetrated nor
> unpenetrated”.
>
> So far as I can determine, in avidhyate the initial a can only be taken as
> privative.
> Is this uniquely a peculiar Buddhist usage?
>
> thank you for your thoughts,
> Matthew
>
> Matthew T. Kapstein
> Professor emeritus
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