The Agni Purana
by N. Gangadharan | 1954 | 360,691 words | ISBN-10: 8120803590 | ISBN-13: 9788120803596
This page describes The pratyaharas and fundamental rules in Grammar (vyakarana) which is chapter 349 of the English translation of the Agni Purana, one of the eighteen major puranas dealing with all topics concerning ancient Indian culture, tradition and sciences. Containing roughly 15,000 Sanskrit metrical verses, subjects contained in the Agni-Purana include cosmology, philosophy, architecture, iconography, economics, diplomacy, pilgrimage guides, ancient geography, gemology, ayurveda, etc.
Chapter 349 - The pratyāhāras and fundamental rules in Grammar (vyākaraṇa)
[Sanskrit text for this chapter is available]
Skanda said:
1. O Kātyāyana! I shall describe the essence of grammar [i.e., vyākaraṇa-sāra] that is of the form of perfected words for imparting to the beginners.
2. Pratyāhāras[1] etc. are the notations facilitating the function of the treatise, Aiuṇ ṛḷk, eoṅ, aiauc, hayavaraṭ, laṇ, ñamaṅaṇanam jhabhañ, ghaḍhadhaṣ, jabagaḍadaś, khaphachaṭhathacaṭatav, kapay, śaṣasar, hal are (the fourteen) pratyāhāras. In the enumeration, the consonant at the end is indicatory. The vowel would be (read with) the nasal. The first letter being taking together with the indicative letter at the end, would become the denotative of the letters which occur in between such as aṇ, eṅ, aṭ, yaṅ, chav, jhaṃ, bhaṣ, ak, ik, aṇ, iṇ, yaṇ, with the letter ṇa coming afterwards. (Similarly we have) aṃ, yaṃ, ñaṃ, ac, ic, aic, ay, may, jhay, khay, jav, jhav, khav, cav, śav, aś, haś, vaś, jhaś, al, hal, val, ral, jhal and al the pratyāhāras.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
Several letters or affixes are comprehended as one syllable by means of combining the first letter of an aphorism with its final indicatory letter or if several aphorisms are comprehended, the final letter of the last member is combined with the first such as aṇ etc. denoting aiuṇ etc.