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Sandhi Statistics
Presented below are the results of an automated sandhi analysis of Chapter 5 of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita. All the sandhi sutras applicable to Chapter 5, as well as one example of each sutra, are listed on the next page.
As discussed in the Sandhi Statistics of Chapter 1, a grammatical analysis of a Sanskrit sentence or stanza must analyze every word in a sentence, as Paninian sandhi sutras transform (or choose not to transform) underlying terms (declensions, conjugations, and indeclinables) into 'single words' as well as 'combination words'. Hence, we use the broader term 'sandhi analysis' instead of 'sandhi splitting'.
| # | Description | INPUT | OUTPUT | ||||
| FALSE | FALSE | ||||||
| CORRECT | NEGATIVE | TOTAL | % | POSITIVE | |||
| A | Combination words (two or more terms) | 66 | 158 | 2 | 160 | 44.8 | |
| B | Changed single-word terms | 85 | 85 | 85 | 23.8 | ||
| C | Unchanged Vocatives / Special terms | 20 | 20 | 20 | 5.6 | ||
| D | Unchanged non-special single-word terms | 92 | 92 | 92 | 25.8 | 1 | |
| TOTAL | 263 | 355 | 2 | 357 | 100.0 | 1 | |
| Errors | 0.6% | 0.3% | |||||
The Columns labelled 'False Negative' and 'False Positive' are explained in the Sandhi Statistics of Chapter 1.
As will be noted from the table above, the number of errors is small (False Negatives < 1% and False Positives < 1%) for this Chapter.
The following is a summary of the False Negatives and False Positives discussed in the table above.
| Stanza | False Negatives | False Positives |
| 5.16 | tat, param | tatparam |
In stanza 5.16, the 'sandhi analysis' software treated 'tatparam' as an unchanged single term ('tatpara' has a dictionary meaning 'having that as one's highest aim, totally devoted to, ...' in [MW2011][1]). However, [MM2015] [2] and [KAL2015] [3] treat this as a 'combination word' that is split into the two terms 'tat:that' and 'param:highest/Supreme'. This semantic defect cannot be fixed at the subsequent parsing stage.