The taddhita affixes prescribed for pronominal stems: Analysis of pre-Pāṇinian ātI (A 5.3.34) occurrences
Abstract
The present article can be inserted in a broader line of research, where specific pre-Pāṇinian occurrences of sarvanāmans + taddhita affixes are analysed to show how Pāṇini explains what in appearance was anomie and immediately transforms it into a strict norm. A previous analysis focused on several instances of the affix aka̲C (A 5.3.71), which all the translators of Ṛgveda and Śaunakīya Saṁhitā interpret as ka (A 5.3.70), with a generic diminutive meaning; even though the affix aka̲C can be understood as a pure device created by Pāṇini to deal with an internal sandhi problem in a systematic way, that is, it can be considered equivalent to ka, it is important to also consider what the several meanings aka̲C can bring (see Ferrero 2023). This regulatory process can be found also in the prescription of other taddhita affixes; for this reason, the affixes ātI / enaP / āC (A 5.3.34 – A 5.3.36) have been generally examined in this article. Moreover, some examples of the application of the affix ātI to pronominal stems have been specifically studied in the Vedic saṃhitās. The aim is to understand why Pāṇini needs to introduce these further rules in an already standardised grammatical system.
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