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- Title: The Theory of Nipatas (Particles) in Yaska's Nirukta (Book Review)
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2002
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 183 KB
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By ASHOK AKLUJKAR. Post-graduate and Research Department series no. 42. Pandit Shripad Shastri Deodhar Memorial Lectures Sixth Series. Pane: BHANDARKAR ORIENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 1999. Pp. iv + 107. Yaska's discussion of particles in the Nirukta is the most extensive treatment of these forms in the older Sanskrit grammatical tradition. But exactly what Yaska is trying to say has been matter of debate over the centuries. The main aspects of the controversy are the issues of how many categories of particle Yaska intended to posit, the meanings of the descriptive term employed to characterize some of these categories, the apparent misfit between the category descriptions and some of the particles listed under them, and the order of presentation of the particles, Additional questions surround the nature of Yaska's list which is far from exhaustive, and the origin of the very term nipata used to characterize the entire class in question. In this monograph, Aklujkar tackles all of these issues, among others While revealing himself to be conversant with the entire history of scholarship on the Nirukta, from Saunaka to Durga to Skanda-Mahesvara onward, Aklujkar seems to take as a point of departure two recent studies of Western scholars, Bronkhorst (1979) and Falk (1982), both of which introduce rather bold analytical moves and thereby diverge significantly from traditional interpretations. Aklujkar's study, on the other hand, remains vet. much within a traditional Indian framework.