प्रियं पान्थमनुव्रजेत् — A Note

While commenting on Patanjal discusses the point that among compounds, the Anyayabhava only should be understood as indec linable To prove the point he gives an illustration from the common usage of the world In the common usage a person accompanies his dear visitor til the end of the forest is seen and till the

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शुक्ल पतंजलि के महाभाष्य में उद्धृत उस लोकोक्ति की जाँच करते हैं कि प्रिय पथिक को वनान्त तक पहुँचाया जाता है। क्षीरस्वामी की क्षीरतरंगिणी में 'प्रियं प्रोथम्' पाठान्तर मिलता है; शुक्ल ऋग्वेद से लेकर अमर, त्रिकाण्डशेष और मेदिनीकोश तक 'प्रुथ्' धातु के अर्थ-विकास का अनुसरण करते हैं। Shukla examines the maxim quoted in Patanjali's Mahabhasya, that one escorts a dear traveller to the edge of the forest. Ksirasvamin's Ksiratarangini preserves a different reading, priyam protham, and Shukla traces the root pruth from the Rgveda through the lexicographers to recover its older sense.

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