Sati Saptami

[kousalya narayana]

Can anyone explain Sati Saptami in detail??

Thanks in advance

[JAZIRAE NEOKAI]

Hi Kousalya,

Here is what I have put together from all my study sources:

Locative Absolute  (Sati Saptami)  ̶  To express as or while or when (a simultaneous circumstance), a pres. p. or ind.p. is used.  But when the circumstance does not involve the subject of the sentence these cannot be used.  Instead a short nominal phrase all in 7^th case (except for indeclinables) can be used, called locative absolute, or saptami. 

 

         Using a past participle:  kāle ṡubhe prāpte, an inauspicious time having arrived; aparādhe kṛte ápi, though an offense be committed (using a p.p.); evám uktó ﮐpi, even such being said.

 

         Using a present participle:  tasmin dahyamāne, as it was burning

         Using a past active participle:  despite this being said; evám abhíhitavati pārthive, the king having spoken thus.  (See You-Male (Formal) chart and Śatru pratyayaha chart.)

 

         Sati Saptami:  Sometimes the short nominal phrases may include the pres.p. of ásti ‘while being’ in 7^th case, though it is usually redundant.  Ex.:  Sītāyām paṭhatyām satyām (f) when Sītā studies/is studying.  Ásti pres.p. = sánt (san/satī́/sat mfn).

 

         The same meaning can be expressed using cases other than 7^th, matching the case of the noun involved.  Ex. using 3^rd:  prasanna-manasā satā Mādhavena, by Mādhava, being of tranquil mind.  Coulson, 1992.

 

         But more often, instead of locative absolute an adjective compound is used (bahuvṛīhi):  ṡoka-saṃvigna-mānasa:, his mind overwhelmed with grief  (or having a mind overº).

 

         Another possibility is simply an abstract noun in 7^th.  Rākṣanasya agráhaṇe, with the demon not captured (literally in the demon’s not being captured).

Jazirae

 

 

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 9:04 AM, kousalya narayana <kousa...@gmail.com> wrote:

Can anyone explain Sati Saptami in detail??

Thanks in advance

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[Naresh Cuntoor]

The Chitrapurmath lessons site has a description of sati saptami:
http://www.chitrapurmath.net/pdf/sanskrit/Lessons/Month%2019%20Lessons%2071%20-%2074.pdf

If the above link goes not show the pdf, go here: http://www.chitrapurmath.net/sanskrit/sanskrit_Iesson.asp and look for Month 19.

Naresh

[Taff Rivers]

Sati Saptami.

   In English grammar this is really the Nominative Absolutive.

Where absolutive is English grammar speak for relatively independent syntactically.

- but here it is only so when positioned as the subject of the verb.

As such, sati saptami is a special case of Sanskrit's 7th or vocative one, where the absence of an inflection leaves it open to a speculation of a the preposition kind.

(or to put it another way, to speculate this way, that way...on and on and on endlessly..) 

This morsel of information, is gleaned from the end of Lesson 10 in Walter Harding Maurer's book (Revised edition 2009.). But Grammarians are notoriously argumentative.

Chomsky too, is disputed.

Taff Rivers