Essay name: Brihatkatha-kosha (cultural study)
Author:
Himanshu Shekhar Acharya
Affiliation: Pondicherry University / Department of Sanskrit
This essay is an English study of the Brihatkatha-kosha reflecting cultural traditions of the life of people in ancient and medieval India during the 10th century. The Brihatkathakosha contains a collection of Jain Kathas (stories) intended to propagate Jain ideology and inspire people to lead a religio-ethical life. The book is written in over 12,000 Sanskrit verses
Chapter 2 - Brihatkatha-kosha鈥擜 literary study
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Tense :
Roots:
The word 'arat' governs genetive instead of ablative (16.45).
The peculiarity in the use of roots in certain tenses is worth mentioning
Examples-
bhavet (105.28) and sydt (75.100) are used denoting past tense.
the use of certain roots is peculiar viz.
vis麓- to understand or know (10.87)
gai - to speak (10.105)
Peculiarities can be noticed in the following usages -
labhisyati for lapsyate (20.1), k膩r膩payata for k膩rayata (23.29, 25.27, and
46.23) mar膩mi for mriye (33.90), sisyapita岣� in the sense of sik峁ta岣� (35.7, 12.60).
Suffixes :
The peculiarity in the form of following words with the use of different
suffixes may be noticed -
sn膩pya for sn膩payitva (56.260)
vy膩payitv膩 for vy膩pya (12.128)
uccaran for ucc膩rayan (11.132)
nindat墨 for nindanti (14.28)
