it occurred to me that it seemed different from a normal kammadhaaraya
because it doesn't seem complete.
pa.ticca [pa.ti+i I/ger] grounded upon, because of, etc.
sam [indec] together
uppada [m-a] arising, origination, coming into being,
samuppada [kammadhaaraya] co-origination, arising together
pa.ticcasamuppada[...] arising together, grounded upon...]/ arising
because of.../
Pa.ticca didn't seem to me to be acting as a normal adjective would in
relation to the following noun. So, I went looking through a few
Pali/Sanskrit grammar books and found the following:
Syntactical compound: a compound of two or more words joined together,
owing to the fact that they have often been used together in a sentence.
One type of syntactical compound is that of a gerund + noun. One
example given is "adhicca-samuppada," so it seems pretty clear to me
that this author would likely include "pa.ticca-samuppada" as well in
this categorization.
My question is this:
There is no equivalent pali term given for this type of compound which
makes me think that one may not exist and that though this compound is a
bit odd, it may be considered a kammadhaaraya, nonetheless, according to
native grammars. Can anyone affirm or deny this? If there is a pali
term for this compound then I would like to know what it is, and if not,
then I would like to know how native grammars would gloss it.
Thank you for your help,
With metta,
Alan
p.s. on a related note, am I correct in glossing "sa.laayatana.m" in the
sentence: "naamaruupapaccayaa sa.laayatana.m" as a bahubbiihi? My
reasoning is that I assume the compound should be plural but is only
singular to agree with the non-specified "being" who has the six sense
bases.