{"id":235,"date":"2013-07-13T01:26:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=235"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:26:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:26:47","slug":"36-word-formation-vol-11-hymns-to-the-mystic-fire-volume-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/11-hymns-to-the-mystic-fire-volume-11\/36-word-formation-vol-11-hymns-to-the-mystic-fire-volume-11","title":{"rendered":"-36_Word Formation.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\n\t\tWORD-FORMATION<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nfrom <\/p>\n

\nMaterial for a full Philological Reconstruction of
\nthe old Aryabhasha from which the Indo-Aryan
\nand Dravidian languages are derived. <\/p>\n

\n\t <\/div>\n

Word Formation<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

THE <\/span><\/b>
\nlanguage of man is not framed on earth, but in heaven, as indeed are all things
\nthat the earth-soul uses in this mortal journey. By the threefold energy of
\neternal truth, manifesting force and sustaining delight everything is created as
\na type in the world of ideas, the mahat<\/i> of the ancients, in the principle
\nof self-manifest and perfectly arranged knowledge, it is diversely developed by
\nthe more discursive but less sure-footed agencies of intellectual mind.
\nImagination hunts after new variations, memory and association corrupt, analogy
\nperverts, sensation, emotion, pleasure seize violent and partial satisfaction.
\nHence, change, decay, death, rebirth, \u2014 the law of the world. All this takes
\nplace in the descent into the world of mind and the world of matter. Therefore
\nmankind has one original language based on certain eternal types of sound,
\ndeveloped by certain laws of rhythmic variation, perfectly harmonious and
\nsymmetrical in its structure and evolution. This is the devabhāṣā<\/i> and is
\nspoken in the Satyayuga. Then it suffers change, detrition, collapse.
\nInnumerable languages, dialects, vernaculars are born. The guardians of the
\nsacred language attempt always to bring back the early purity, but even they
\ncannot do it; they reconstruct it from time to time, compromise with the new
\ntendencies, preserve something of the skeleton, lose the flesh, blood, sinew,
\nmuch of the force and spirit. This reconstructed language they call Sanskrit;
\nall else Prakrit. <\/p>\n

The backbone of the skeleton is composed of the roots of the
\noriginal language that survive; the rest is the various principles of
\nword-formation. Accordingly in the languages of the world which are nearest to
\nthe old secret language, the ancient Aryan languages, there is one common
\nelement, the roots, the elemental word-formations from the roots and so much of
\nthe original significance as survives variety of mental development playing on
\ndifferent lines and to different purposes. The object of this treatise is to
\nprovide a reasoned basis, built up on the <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 505<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

\nfacts of the old languages, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, German, Celtic, Tamil,
\nPersian, Arabic, for a partial reconstruction, not of  the original
\ndevabhāṣā,<\/i> but of the latest forms commonly original to the variations in
\nthese languages. I shall take the four languages, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and
\nTamil first, to build up my scheme and then support it by the four other
\ntongues. I omit all argument and handling of possible objections, because the
\nobject of this work is suggestive and constructive only, not apologetic. When
\nthe whole scheme is stated and has been worked out on a more comprehensive scale
\nthan is possible in the limits I have here set myself, the time will come for
\ndebate. Over an uncompleted exegesis, it would be premature. <\/p>\n

I shall first indicate the principle on which the roots of the
\ndevabhāṣā <\/i>were formed. All Shabda (vāk)<\/i> as it manifests out of the
\nākāśa<\/i> by the force of mātariśvan,<\/i> the great active and creative
\nenergy, and is put in its place in the flux of formed things (apas) <\/i>
\ncarries with it certain definite significances (artha).<\/i> These are
\ndetermined by the elements through which it has passed. Śabda <\/i>appears in
\nthe ākāśa,<\/i> travels through vāyu,<\/i> the second element in which
\nsparśa<\/i> is the vibration; by the vibrations of sparśa,<\/i> it creates in
\ntejas,<\/i> the third element, certain forms, and so arrives into being with
\nthese three characteristics, first, certain contactual vibrations, secondly, a
\nparticular kind of tejas<\/i> or force, thirdly, a particular form. These
\ndetermine the bhāva<\/i> or general sensation it creates in the mind and from
\nthat sensation develop its various precise meanings according to the form which
\nit is used to create. <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 506<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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