A Study on the Adoption of Sanskrit Grammar through Compound(samāsa) Analysis(Ⅱ): Focusing on the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya and Sphuṭārthā Abhidharmakośavyākhyā

2020 ◽  
Vol 90 ◽  
pp. 267-288
Author(s):  
Hyeon-Deog Kim
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2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-394
Author(s):  
Mirella Lingorska

Abstract The present article focuses on appositional metaphoric compounds karmadhāraya-rūpaka in Sanskrit. A first section addresses some problems of compound typology in Western works, where appositional compounds have often been identified as copulative dvandva. Following this general analysis there is a section on appositional compounds from the perspective of the classical Sanskrit grammar, in particular the Pāṇinian tradition where the metaphorical aspect has not been explored specifically. The final section deals with the contribution of Sanskrit treatises on poetics to the identification of metaphoric compounds and their differentiation from compound similes. The approach suggested in later texts on poetics seems to be based on syntactical criteria, the ambiguity of the double-head topic, i. e. candra-mukha, a moon-face being specified in the comment. According to this, an appositional compound should be analysed as a simile, if the comment refers to the actual part of the compound, i.e. the subject of the simile, or as a metaphor, if the comment refers to the standard of comparison, thus shifting the focus of the sentence from the actual to the imagined entity.


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1981 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 492
Author(s):  
Dorothy Disterheft ◽  
Madhav M. Deshpande

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