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मक्डोनेल्
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मक्डोनेल् [MACDONELL,ARTHUR ANTHONY ] a deep scholar of Vedic Gram. and Literature who has written an exhaustive Vedic Grammar; in treatment, at places he differs from Panini and follows a different method, but the manner of thinking and argument is on original lines.

मेघविजय a Jain grammarian of the seventeenth century who has written a grammar work, similar to the Siddhanta Kaumudi, on the Sabdanusasana of Hemacandra. The grammar work is called हैमकौमुदी, or चन्द्रप्रभा also.

मैत्रायणीय प्रातिशाख्य a Pratiskhya or Parsada work giving the peculiari- ties of Sandhi, accent and the like, in changing the Maitrayaniya- Samhitaapatha into the Padapatha.

मेत्रेयरक्षित a recognised scholar of Paninis' grammar who belonged to the Eastern part of India and fourished in the beginning of the twelfth century. As it appears from the name Maitreya Raksita he appears to have been a Buddhist grammarian. Subsequent writers in their works refer to him by the name Raksita alone, as also by the name Maitreya, but very rarely by the name Maitreya Raksita. He wrote many works on gram- mar of which the 'tantrapradipa' a learned commentary on Jine- ndrabuddhi's Nyasa on Kasika was a reputed one, which, although available in a fragmentary manu- script form today, has been profusely quoted by prominent grammarians after him.

मोक्षेश्वर a grammarian of the four- teenth century who has written a commentary on the Katantra Vrtti of Durgasimha. He has written

a commentary on the Akhyatavrtti of the Katantra school as also a short treatise dealing with the krt affixes called Krdvrtti.

म्लेच्छ (I) a word although correct, yet looked upon as incorrect owing to its faulty utterance; (2) a person like the uncultured people, who is not able to pronounce words correctly cf. म्लेच्छा मा भूमेत्यध्येयं व्याकरणम् M. Bh. I. 1, Ahnika 1.

य् (l) a consonant of the palatal class, called semivowel or अन्तःस्थ ( spelt as अन्तस्थ also ), possessed of the properties संवृतत्व, नाद, घोष and अनुनासिकत्व in addition; (2) a substi- tute for म् when that म् is followed by ह् which is followed by य्. e. g. किंय्ह्य: cf. यवलपरे यवला वा. P. VIII. 3. 26 Vart.l ; (3) य् looked upon as possessed of a very little effort in production i. e. which appears as almost dropped but not comple- tely dropped when its elision is prescribed at the end of a word. e. g- भोय् अच्युत; cf. व्योर्लधुप्रयत्नतर: शाकटायनस्य P. VIII. 3.18.

(1) the consonant य् with अ added to it merely for the sake of facility in pronunciation; यकार is also used in the same sense: e. g. लिटि वयो यः: P.VI.1.38 cf. T.Pr.I: 17,21; (2) krt affix (यत्) prescribed as कृत्य or potential passive participle; e.g. चेयम्, गेयम्, शाप्यम् , शक्यम् , गद्यम् , अजर्यम् पण्यम् etc.: cf. अचो यत्...अजर्यं संगतम् P. III. 1.97-105; (3) krt. affix क्यप् which is also an affix called krtya; e. g. ब्रह्मोद्यम् , भाव्यम्, घात्यम् , स्तुत्यम् , कल्प्यम् , खेयम् , भृत्यः:, भिद्यः, पुष्य:, कृत्यम् also कार्यम् ; cf. P. III. 1.106-123; (4) krt affix ण्यत् ( which is also कृत्य ), e. g कार्यम् , हार्यम् , वाक्यम् , लाव्यम्, कुण्डपाय्यम्. etc.: cf P. III.