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work Vaiyākaraṇabhūṣaṇasāra. which is in a way an abridgment of the Bhūṣaṇa, was also written by him. Koṇḍabhaṭṭa lived in the beginning of the l7th century. He was the son of Raṅgojī and nephew of Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita. He was one of the few writers on the Arthavicāra in the Vyākaraṇaśāstra and his Bhūṣaṇasāra ranks next to the Vākyapadīya of Bhartṛhari. Besides the Bhūṣaṇa and Bhūṣaṇa- sāra, Koṇḍabhaṭṭa wrote two independent works viz. Vaiyāka- raṇsiddhāntadīpika and Sphoṭa- vāda.

कोद्ण्डराम a scholar of Sanskrit Vy- ākaraṇa who composed शब्दसिद्धान्त- मञ्जरी a small treatise dealing with the declension of nouns.

कौण्डिन्य an ancient grammarian referred to in the Taittirīya Prātiśākhya(T. Pr. V. 38) and Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī, (P.II.4.70).

कौमार, कोमारव्याकरण (1)an alternative name of the Kātantra Vyākaraṇa given to it on the strength of the traditional belief that the original inspiration for writing it was received by Sarvavarman from Kumara or Kārtikeya; (2) small treatises bearing the name Kau- māravyākaraṇa written by Muni- puṅgava and Bhāvasena. The latter has written Kātantrarūpa- māla also.


कौहलीपुत्र an ancient grammarian referred to in the Taittirīya Prāti- śākhya: cf. T.Pr. XVIII.2.

क्त kṛt affix त in various senses, call- ed by the name निष्ठा in Pāṇini's grammar along with the affix क्तवतू cf. क्तक्तवतू निष्ठा P.I.1.26.The various senses in which क्त is prescribed can be noticed below : (1) the general sense of something done

in the past time as past pass.parti- ciple e. g. कृत:, भुक्तम् etc.: cf P. III.2.102; (2) the sense of the beginning of an activity when it is used actively: e. g. प्रकृतः कटं देवदत्तः, cf. P.III.2.102 Vārt. 3; (3) the sense of activity of the present tense applied to roots marked with a mute ञ् as also to roots in the sense of desire, knowledge and worship; e.g.मिन्नः, क्ष्विण्ण:, धृष्ट: as also राज्ञां मतः, राज्ञामिष्टः, राज्ञां बुद्धः; cf. P.III.2.187, 88; (4) the sense of mere verbal activity (भाव) e. g. हसितम् , सहितम् , जल्पितम् , (used always in the neuter gender); cf. P.III.3. 114: (5) the sense of benediction when the word ending in क्त is used as a technical term, e.g. देवदत्तः in the sense of देवा एनं देयासुः. The kṛt affix क्तिन् is also used similarly e.g. सातिः भूतिः मन्ति:; cf. Kāś. on P. III.3.174.

क्तवतु kṛt affix तवत् which also is call- ed निष्ठा. It is prescribed in the active sense of somebody who has done a thing sometime in the past. A word ending in it is equivalent to the past active participle; e.g. भुक्तवान् ब्राह्मणः cf P.I.1.26. The fem. affix डीप् ( ई ) is added to nouns ending in क्तवतु to form feminine bases; cf. P.IV.1.6.

क्तान्त a noun base ending in the kṛt affix क्त; past passive participle; cf. क्षेपे सप्तम्यन्तं क्तान्तेन सह समस्यते । अवतप्तेनकुलस्थितं त एतत् M. Bh.on II.2. 47.

क्तार्थं sense of क्त i.e. sense of the past pass. participle; cf. उपसर्गाः क्तार्थे, प्रादयः क्तार्थे ( समस्यन्ते ), P.II.2.18, Vārt. 4.

क्तिच् kṛt affix ति added to roots in the benedictive sense to form संज्ञाशब्द or nouns in a technical sense; e.g- तन्तिः in the sense of तनुतात्: cf. Kāś.