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Vyakarana (Sanskrit grammar)

Source: Wikisource: A dictionary of Sanskrit grammar

Ārdhadhātuka (आर्धधातुक).—A term used in contrast to the term सार्वधातुक (sārvadhātuka) for such verbal and kṛt affixes, as are not personal endings of verbs nor marked with the mute letter श् (ś) cf. तिङ्शित् सार्वधातुकम् । आर्धधातुकं शेषः। (tiṅśit sārvadhātukam | ārdhadhātukaṃ śeṣaḥ|) P.III.4.113 and 114. The personal endings of verbs in the perfect tense and the benedictive mood are termed ārdhadhātuka, cf. P. III. 4.115, 116; while both the terms are promiscuously found utilised in the Vedic Literature; cf. P. III. 4. 117. The main utility of the ārdhadhātuka term is the augment इ (i) (इट् (iṭ)) to be prefixed to the ārdhadhātuka affixes. The term आर्धधातुका (ārdhadhātukā) was in use in works of the old Vaiyākaraṇas; cf. अथवा आर्धधातुकासु इति वक्ष्यामि कासु आर्धधातुकासु । उक्तिषु युक्तिषु रूढिषु प्रतीतिषु श्रुतिषु संज्ञासु (athavā ārdhadhātukāsu iti vakṣyāmi kāsu ārdhadhātukāsu | uktiṣu yuktiṣu rūḍhiṣu pratītiṣu śrutiṣu saṃjñāsu) M.Bh. on II. 4.35. It cannot be said how the term ārdhadhātuka originated. Probably such affixes or pratyayas, like the kṛt affixes generally, as could be placed after certain roots only were called ārdhadhātuka, as contrasted with the verbal and the present participle affixes which were termed sārvadhātuka on account of their being found in use after every root.

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Ārdhadhātukā (आर्धधातुका).—Old term for आर्धधातुक (ārdhadhātuka); see आर्धधातुक (ārdhadhātuka).

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Vyakarana (व्याकरण, vyākaraṇa) refers to Sanskrit grammar and represents one of the six additional sciences (vedanga) to be studied along with the Vedas. Vyakarana concerns itself with the rules of Sanskrit grammar and linguistic analysis in order to establish the correct context of words and sentences.

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Ārdhadhātuka (आर्धधातुक).—a.

-kī f.) (In gram.) applicable to half the root or to the shorter form of the verbal base.

-kam a name given to those terminations and affixes which belong to the six non-conjugational or general tenses (opp. sārva. dhātuka); cf. P.III.4.114,I.1.4; II.4,35;VII.2.35 &c.

Ārdhadhātuka is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms ārdha and dhātuka (धातुक).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Ārdhadhātuka (आर्धधातुक).—[adjective] applicable to the shorter form of the base ([grammar]).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Ārdhadhātuka (आर्धधातुक):—[from ārdha] mf(ā)n. ([from] ardha-dhātu), ‘applicable to the shorter form of the verbal base’, a technical Name given to the terminations of the [perfect tense] and bened. and to any Pratyaya (q.v.) except the personal terminations of the conjugational tenses in [Parasmaipada] and [Ātmanepada], and except the Pratyayas which have the Anubandha ś, [Pāṇini 3-4, 114-117; ii, 4, 36, etc.]

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Ardhadhatuka in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Ardha, Dhatuka.

Starts with: Ardhadhatukadhikara.

Full-text: Ardhadhatukiya, Sarvadhatuka, Ar, Anavasthita, Set, Radhadi, Vet, Aya, Ardhadhatukadhikara, Ubhayatha, Anit, Anitkarika, Aj, Anudatta.

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