PRASAD P. JOSHI
Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 prasad.joshi@dcpune.ac.in<\/p>\n\n\n\n
THE DEV\u012aM\u0100H\u0100TMYA<\/em> IN THE M\u0100RKA\u1e46\u1e0cEYAPUR\u0100\u1e46A<\/em>: SOME OBSERVATIONS OF GRAMMAR AND STYLE <\/p>\n\n\n\n The M\u0101rka\u1e47\u1e0deyapur\u0101\u1e47a<\/em> occupies an important place among the eighteen Mah\u0101pur\u0101\u1e47as. It is particularly famous for the Dev\u012bm\u0101h\u0101tmya<\/em> forming 13 chapters in its text which has been recited in all parts of India and represents a living tradition. The language of Dev\u012bm\u0101h\u0101tmya<\/em> exhibits some verbal and nominal forms which are remarkable. They deviate from P\u0101\u1e47inian rules and show some patterns. Some lexical items like medhas<\/em>, samastasurat\u0101<\/em> are lone representatives of concerned grammatical category or they are of very rare usage. The use of gerund (like \u0101d\u0101ya<\/em>, k\u1e5btv\u0101<\/em>) in the text mark distinct features of syntax. The use of particle ca<\/em> (and) added after the clause is notable for determining the scope of the coordinative item. So far as the stylistic features are concerned, discontinuous adjective, shared predicate verb and use of interrogative adverb kim<\/em> in rhetoric questions are remarkable. At the same times, long compounding of the words, employment of various metres, etc. stand for the high poetic composition of the classical period. The study of these grammatical and stylistic features of the Dev\u012bm\u0101h\u0101tmya deserves a separate treatment. The present paper is an attempt to bring forth the linguistic peculiarities of the Dev\u012bm\u0101h\u0101tmya while comparing them with occurrences in the rest of the M\u0101rka\u1e47\u1e0deyapur\u0101\u1e47a<\/em> and the other literature. It is hoped that the study would be helpful to ascertain the place of the M\u0101rka\u1e47\u1e0deyapur\u0101\u1e47a<\/em> in the general course of the language history of Sanskrit.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PRASAD P. JOSHIDeccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 prasad.joshi@dcpune.ac.in THE DEV\u012aM\u0100H\u0100TMYA IN THE M\u0100RKA\u1e46\u1e0cEYAPUR\u0100\u1e46A: SOME OBSERVATIONS OF GRAMMAR AND STYLE The M\u0101rka\u1e47\u1e0deyapur\u0101\u1e47a occupies an important place among the eighteen Mah\u0101pur\u0101\u1e47as. It is particularly famous for the Dev\u012bm\u0101h\u0101tmya forming 13 chapters in its text which has been recited in all parts of India and represents […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2169","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2169\/revisions\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}