Prepositions in Aśvaghoṣa

Whether prepositions are invested with any meanings of their own or they merely indicate the meanings latent in the roots is an old controversy dating back to the pre-Yäska era. As unlike nouns and verbs prepositions are never used independently. They are presumed to have no function beyond bringing out the different shades of meanings

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सत्यव्रत अश्वघोष के उपसर्ग-प्रयोग की जाँच वैयाकरणों के उस नियम के विरुद्ध करते हैं कि उपसर्ग धातु के अर्थ को सीमित, पुष्ट अथवा परिवर्तित करता है। वे दिखाते हैं कि अश्वघोष प्रायः परम्परा से हटकर, कहीं स्वेच्छा से तो कहीं निरर्थक रूप में उपसर्ग लगाते हैं। Satya Vrat examines the upasargas of Asvaghosa against the grammarians' rule that a preposition limits, strengthens or alters a root's sense. He shows that Asvaghosa often departs from the norm, using prepositions arbitrarily or pleonastically, and collects instances from the two poems.

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