RE: Pali Endings table by Kogen Mizuno

Hi Dmitry,

Thanks for the postings and links, I wasn’t aware of Kogen Mizuno’s Pali Dictionary, I’d appreciate a link to it, if the source is online or in some other  format.

After a quick glance at the table via your link, I have some problems with it although such a table would be more helpful to me if it gave some consideration to the method of the Pali grammar tradition. The table is focussed on the inflectional endings but many of these endings happen to contain other affixes such as a preceding primary, secondary. or feminine affix with perhaps some vowel changes. In Buddhānaṃ, the inflectional affix is -naṃ, not -ānaṃ. The ā is the lengthening of the ‘a’ in the primary or kita nominal affix ‘ta’ (budh + ta > buddha) which precedes ‘naṃ.’ There are specific rules for forming Pāli words.

It is interesting to note that unlike Pāli. Pāṇinian Sanskrit grammar does not recognize ‘buddha’ as an agent noun (kattusādhana) according to the Kaccāyana commentators.

Best wishes,

Jim