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Sanskrit taddhita and English Suffixes:
A Primary Investigation

Sakshi, M.Phil., Ph.D. Candidate
Subhash Chandra, M.Phil., Ph.D.

Abstract

Sanskrit is one of the oldest languages in the world. A huge list of words is borrowed from the Sanskrit ?in other Indian languages and there are lots of similarities between Sanskrit and foreign languages. This paper presents a primary and comparative investigation and analysis between Sanskrit secondary derivative or taddhita suffixes (TS) and English suffix. It describes few major points of similarities and dissimilates between Sanskrit taddhita forms and English adjectives. Grammatical tradition of the Sanskrit is very old and most powerful. Paninian grammar called Ast?dhy?yi (AD) is considered as Sanskrit grammar. A primary comparison and brief relations between Sanskrit taddhitanta and English adjectives are investigated in this paper.

Keywords: Sanskrit grammar, Sanskrit taddhita suffix, English adjective, word processing, Sanskrit morphology, POS. etc.

1. Introduction

Sanskrit is linguistically very rich language. It includes morphology, history, dharma?ashtra, pur?na, vedas etc. Sanskrit has a very rich and scientific grammar called Paninian Grammar or AD. There are about 4000 rules are described in the eight chapters of AD. These rules are six types e.g. sa?j?a, paribhasa vidhi, niyama, atidesa, and adhikara (Chandra, 2006). Panini has described TS in the 4th and 5th chapters of AD. TS are those affixes conjoined with the noun, pronoun and adjectives and change the meaning of the particular words e.g. ??????+???= ??????? (Vidyavaridhi, 1997; Chandra, 2006 and Chandra & Jha, 2011). Pa?ini has listed approximately 300 TS in the AD e.g.- ???, ???, ???, ????, ????, ?????, ???, ?, ???, ? etc. TS those are very similar to English adjectives are included in this study. Brief descriptions of a few TS are given below:

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Sakshi, M.Phil., Ph.D. Candidate

Subhash Chandra, M.Phil., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Computational Linguistics
subhash.jnu@gmail.com

Department of Sanskrit, University of Delhi
New Delhi-110007
India

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