119. 116 HISTORY OF SANSKRIT POETICS

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or on the opinion of the author of Nyasa; as the word tm is employed by merely relying on the indication furnished by a sutra of Panini, one should not form a compound with a word, ending in भक as in the case of the word तद्गमक (तस्य गमकः तद्गमक:). It is not possible to go into all grammatical details here, but I shall say a few words which, I hope, will make the controversy clear to anyone having some knowledge of Sanskrit. पाशिनि says 'तृजकाभ्यां कतरि' II. 2. 15, which is an exce- ption to his general rule 'qsat' II. 2. 8 (a noun in the genitive may be compounded with another noun, as in राजपुरुषः which when dissolved becomes राज: पुरुषः). The exception means when affixes तृच (तृ) and भक are added in the sense of the doer or agent, the words so formed cannot be compounded with another word in the genitive, e. g. we must say qqt aer and भोदनस्य पाचक: (andnot अपस्ष्टा nor भोदनपाचकः). There are counter- exceptions such as those where words of the aTae group are concerned (याजकादिमिश्च-पा. II. 2.9). One can say त्राह्मणयाजक:, देवपूजक: But poets often violate these rules as said in निरक्कशा: कवयः (by भट्टोजि on पा. III. 2. 138). For example, we have the well-known भोजप्रबन्ध verse 'घटानां निर्मातुख्िभुवनविधातुश्च कलहः' (it should be त्रिभुवनस्य विधातु:). The commentators suggest several ways to get over this apparently ungrammatical use. One way to get over the difficulty is to hold that in faurg, the affix is not तृच्, but तृन् used in the sense of 'being in the habit of.' The sutras are (भा क्वेस्तच्छीलतद्धमतत्साधुकारिषु। तृन्। पा. III. 2.134-135; an example being कर्ता कटान, one who habitually makes mats). But then another difficulty presents itself viz. पाशिनि forbids, among others, the employment of words formed by a with a noun in the genitive (न लोकाव्ययनिष्ठाखलथंतृनाम्) । पा. II. 3.69).1 To this a reply is given that Panini's rules are not absolute, that there are indications («rqa) in his sūtras to that effect, since he give's such sutras as जनिकत: प्रकृति: (पा. I. 4.30), 'तत्प्रयोजको हेतुश्व' (पा. I.4.55). Here कर्त (formed with affix तृ) is compounded with afa which would be in the genitive case when the compound is dissolved; similarly प्रयोजक (formed with affix भक) is compounded with an which would be in the genitive when dissolved,

1. The word तन here is a प्रत्याहार and stands for all terminations beginning with a in qra in qr. III. 2. 124 and ending with तन् (III.2.135).