पुटमेतत् सुपुष्टितम्
घातुमञ्जरी
धान्यपाद्
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lived in the middle of the twelfth century. He is believed to have written many scholarly works in connection with Panini's grammar out of which the Tantrapradipa is the most important one. The work Dhatupradipa is quoted by Saranadeva, who was a contem- porary of Maitreya Raksita, in his Durghatavrtti on P. II. 4. 52.

घातुमञ्जरी called also धातुसंग्रहृ attribut- ed to a grammarian namcd Kasi- natha.

धातुमाला a work on roots in verse- form attributed to a grammarian named Isvarakanta.

धातुरत्नमञ्जरी a treatise dealing with roots believed to have been written by Ramasimhavarman.

धातुरत्नाकर a work dealing with roots believed to have been written by Narayana who was given the title वन्द्य. He lived in the seventeenth century; a work named सारावलि व्याक्ररण is also believed to have been written by him.

धातुरत्नावली a short list of the impor- tant roots from the Dhatuptha of Panini, given in verse by चोक्कनाथ a grammarian of the 17th century.

धातुलोप an elision of a portion of a root; cf. न धातुलेप अार्धधातुके, P.I.1 4.

धातुवृत्ति a general term applied to a treatise discussing roots, but speci- fically used in connection with the scholarly commentary written by Madhavacārya, the reputed scholar and politician at the court of the Vijayanagara kings in the four- teenth century, on the Dhatupatha ot Panini. The work is generally referred to as माधवीया-धातुवृति to distinguish it from ordinary com- mentary works called also धातुवृत्ति written by grammarians like Wijayananda and others.

धातुव्याकरण a grammar dealing with Verbs believed to have been written by Vangasena.

घातुसबन्धपाद conventional name given to the fourth pada of Panini's Astadhyayi which begins with the Sutra धातुसंबन्धे प्रत्ययाः P. III.4.1

धातूपदेश enumeration or recital of roots in the Dhatupatha;cf. प्रकृत्युप- पदोपाधयश्वोपदिष्टः। क्व । धातूपदेशे प्रातिपदिको- पदेशे च । M. Bh. on P. III. 1 1.

धात्वर्थे lit. meaning of a root, the verbal activity, named क्रिया or भावः . cf. धात्वर्थः क्रिया; M. Bh. on III.2. 84, III.2.115. The verbal activity is described generally to be made up of a series of continuous sub- ordinate activities carried on by the different karakas or agents and instruments of verbal activity helping the process of the main activity. When the process of the verbal activity is complete, the completed activity is looked upon as a substantive or dravya and a word denoting it, such as पाक,or याग does not get conjugational affixes, but it is regularly declined like a noun.Just as स्वार्थ, द्रब्य, लिङ्ग, संख्या, and कारक are given as प्रातिपदिकार्थ, in the same manner क्रिया, काल, पुरुष, वचन or संख्या, and कारक are given as धात्वर्थ, as they are shown by a verbal form, although strictly speaking verbal activity (क्रियorभाव) alone is the sense of a root, as stated in the Mahbhasya. For details see Vaiyak.Bh.Sara, where it is said that fruit ( फल) and effort ( ब्यापार ) are expressed by a root, cf. फलव्यापारयोर्धातुः. The five senses given above are in fact conveyed not by a root, but by a verb or अाख्यात or तिडन्त. धान्यपाद a popular name given to the