1.7

अस्माकं तु विशिष्टा ये तान्निबोध द्विजोत्तम
नायका मम सैन्यस्य संज्ञार्थं तान्ब्रवीमि ते

Printed: asmAkaM tu vishiSHTA ye tAnnibodha dvijottama , nAyakA mama sEnyasya saNjnyArthaM tAnbravImi te .

asmAkaM t ... [8.3.23] mo'nusvAraHa
saNjnyArthaM t ... [8.3.23] mo'nusvAraHa
vishiSHTA ye ... [8.3.17, 8.3.22, 1.3.2, 8.2.66] bho bhago agho apUrvasya yo'shi
nAyakA mama ... [8.3.17, 8.3.22, 1.3.2, 8.2.66] bho bhago agho apUrvasya yo'shi
tAnnibodha ... [6.1.72] saNhitAyAm
tAnbravImi ... [6.1.72] saNhitAyAm

Underlying: asmAkam tu vishiSHTAs ye tAn nibodha dvijottama , nAyakAs mama sEnyasya saNjnyArtham tAn bravImi te .

COMMENTS:

• The parser inserts an elided 'copula verb' in clause A.1.
• Note that the relative pronoun 'ye' is not at the beginning of the clause, and makes it very difficult to decode the structure of the stanza.
• The term 'saNjnyArtham' is treated as an indeclinable by the parser (as does [MM2015] [1], whereas [KAL2015][2] treats it as an ACC-S. The treatment by the parser appears correct as ACC-S 'saNjnyArtham' would conflict with the direct object ACC-P 'tAn' of the verb 'bravImi'. However, there is another possibility of a combination of GEN-S 'te' with ACC-S 'saNjnyArtham', i.e. equivalent to 'your information' (where the verb 'bravImi' is a ditransitive verb); while such an assignment would be different from the views of both experts ([KAL2015] and [MM2015]), it does have merit. From all of the above, we can see that the assignment for the term 'saNjnyArtham' by the parser is not a defect.
• In an alternate clause structure, the relative clause A.1 would start with the relative pronoun 'ye', while the sentence-initial terms 'asmAkan tu vishiSHTAHa' would be attached to the next clause A.2. This would have the alternate reading : 'O Dvijottama, note these, our exceptional people, who are leaders of my army, ... '. In this structure, the relative pronoun NOM-P 'ye' agrees with its antecedent NOM-P 'vishiSHTAHa' in clause A.2, but the antecedent is an adjective, which may be somewhat uncommon.

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A: asmAkam tu vishiSHTAHa santi ye tAn nibodha dvijottama nAyakAHa santi mama sEnyasya saNjnyArtham tAn bravImi te

A.4:

asmAkam:GEN-P:asmad:Masc.:Pronoun

tu:Indeclinable

vishiSHTAHa:NOM-P:vishiSHTa:Masc.:Adj

ye:NOM-P:yad:Masc.:Pronoun

A.1:

tAn:ACC-P:tad:Masc.:Pronoun

nibodha:II-S:ni-budh:1:P:VerbImperative

dvijottama:VOC-S:dvija-uttama (dvijottama) :Masc.:Noun:samAsa_tatpuruSHa(GEN)

A.3:

nAyakAHa:NOM-P:nAyaka:Masc.:Noun

mama:GEN-S:asmad:Masc.:Pronoun

sEnyasya:GEN-S:sEnya:Masc.:Noun

saNjnyArtham:Indeclinable

A.2:

tAn:ACC-P:tad:Masc.:Pronoun

bravImi:I-S:brU:2:P:VerbPresent

te:DAT-S:yuSHmad:Masc.:Pronoun

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