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

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On 11 Oct 2025, at 10:28, Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <indology@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

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