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Across the previous two lessons, what has

been discussed is
1. -s is such specialty of Sanskrit, that a
compound word can have large number of
component words
2. means detailing the meaning of the
compound word, which should be done by
taking up two component words at a time
3. some names of types of -s, viz.
, ,
, also -
.
The process of actually brings forth
the relationship between two component words
on hand.
For example, of
is
. The relationship is adjective-
noun relationship. Type-name of of such
adjective-noun relationship is .
of is
Note, having
already explained of
we take that as a
component word. And we proceed to explore
the relationship between
and the next component . As
mentioned in Lesson 29, we proceed by taking
two components at a time. When proceeding,
first of the two components can be a compound
word, which has been already detailed. The first
component is called as and the
second component is called as

Adjectival -s of

Given below are -s for 3
genders.
They have further inflections by cases
() and 3 numbers ()


- meaning or when to be
No. type used

1 ppp gained

2 app one, who is gaining


present participle one in valid only
3 the act of gaining

4 can be gained

must be gained or what the


5 aim should be for gaining

should be gained or
6 advisable to gain
7 one, who facilitates gaining

8 gainer

9 one, that may be gained


present participle; one, who valid only
10 is in the process of gaining

May it be noted that the adverbial suffix


as explained above, actually adds
only a to the , e.g. .
The suffix also adds only the suffix to
the .
It is smart of grammarians to give two different
names to the two suffixes. One has the name
and the other has been given the
name .
It can also be seen that the verbal auxiliaries of
mood in English grammar, such as may, can,
should, must, are made into adjectival
derivatives in Sanskrit. Those at 1, 4, 6 and 9
have some sense of passive voice. Those at 2,
3, 5, 7, 8, 10 have the sense of active voice.
Present participles - words of
a good number of -s are found in
following lines in




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The meaning is
One who knows the fundamentals and is hence
righteous should consider that he does nothing,
even when one is
seeing, hearing,
touching, smelling,
eating, going about,
dreaming, breathing,
talking,
forsaking,
taking, opening
and closing the eyes,

(One is) always
regarding that organs are for organic functions,

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