sentences in Sanskrit

[Prakash Raj Pandey]

Pranam to all learned scholars,

While in school we were expected to "compose" in English, but the Sanskrit curriculum had no such "composition" part.  So could never venture to write even a simple sentence in Sanskrit.  I feel I could try if  I find a book that guides through the process and discusses the types of Sanskrit sentences.
 

Secondly, we frequently come across such texts: धृतराष्ट्र उवाच । मार्कण्डेय उवाच । देवा ऊचुः ।

Are these complete sentences by themselves, or part of the utterings that follow which is to be taken as "direct speech" ?

If so, how do we regard: मधुसूदनः तं विषीदन्तम् इदं वाक्यम् उवाच । (गीता 2.1)

regards, 
Prakash Raj Pandey

[Sivasenani Nori]

Please see Apte's Student's Guide to Sanskrit Composition for a book on composition - https://archive.org/details/StudentsGuideToSanskritComposition-VsApte1925 

Sentence is very well defined in Sanskrit, as that in which aakaanksha (expectancy) is satisfied, and yogyata (fitness) and sannidhi (proximity) are present. 

So all of धृतराष्ट्र उवाच । मार्कण्डेय उवाच । देवा ऊचुः ।
are valid sentences, as they can stand by themselves and do not need additional information to be supplied. Sentences which  follow the above are indeed related to these sentences. These connected sentences are called a discourse or a mahaavaakyam. 

Regarding मधुसूदनस्तं विषीदन्तमिदं वाक्यमुवाच, even though it occurs as part of a verse, it is a complete sentence. A single verse can have multiple sentences. Or multiple verses can combine to form one sentence. It is meaning which denotes sentence boundaries and nothing else. 

Please note that elliptical sentences are also accepted as sentences. So in the following conversation:

Teacher: Where did you find this book? 

Student: In my grandfather's home. 

the response of the student is taken as a sentence though it lacks a subject and object, both of which are supplied by the teacher's question (the elided part of the elliptical sentence). 

Regards 

N Siva Senani 

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bvparishat+...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bvparishat/CAAcMvre%2BAmdorxfv0hiz%3D3jDs8t6%2BNg%2BYc3jwX_w8-U%2BQkoA%3DA%40mail.gmail.com.