Sandhi Statistics

Presented below are the results of an automated sandhi analysis of this Chapter of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita. All the sandhi sutras applicable to this Chapter, 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)	78	190	0	190	49.7	0
B	Changed single-word terms	86	85	1	86	22.5	1
C	Unchanged Vocatives / Special terms	36	36	0	36	9.4
D	Unchanged non-special single-word terms	70	70		70	18.3
	TOTAL	270	381	1	382	100.0	0
	Errors			0.3%			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 above table, the number of errors in 'sandhi analysis' is reasonably small ( False Negatives <1%, False Positives <1%).

The following is a summary of the False Negatives and False Positives discussed in the table above.

Stanza	False Negatives	False Positives
8.19	sas	se

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B.
In Stanza 8.19, we come across another familiar error that is due to inherent ambiguity. The 'sandhi analyzer' incorrectly assumed that 'sa' was derived from the underlying term 'se' by the application of the 6.1.78-echo'yavAyAvaHa sutra (with the 8.3.19-lopaHa shAkalyasya elision sutra). However, it was actually derived from the underlying term 'sas' by the application of the 8.3.17-bho bhago agho apUrvasya yo'shi sutra (with the 8.3.19-lopaHa shAkalyasya elision sutra). This error accounts for 1 False Negative in Row B and 1 False Positive in Row B.

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