SV: evam me sutam
From: Ole Holten Pind
Message: 2292
Date: 2007-11-16
E.M.
< What technical term is used for "action noun" by Panini? >
The technical term is bhaava.h
< Is this category of word, perhaps, overlooked in the Pali tradition,
precisely because it is treated by Panini but not by Kacc., or not by
Buddhaghosa, etc.? >
In the ct.s and the grammatical lit. bhaava is exclusively used in the sense
of verbal action, cf. the use of bhaava-napu.msaka to denote the adverb, and
its use to describe the absolute locative bhaavena bhaavalakkha.na, e.g. at
Sv p. 33.
[Viz., I am assuming Kacc does not have an equivalent category --in part
simply because he has so few technical terms whatsoever. It is certainly
easy to regard all Pali participles as "just some participle" without
further differentiation.]
Undoubtedly. It is interesting, however, that there are so many instances of
neuter ta-participles used as action nouns.
O.H.Pind
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