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S8 SAMAG~ TILAK - 2 • THE ORION
Vachaspatya obtains the long vowel by Pal).ini v. 2. 102, Vartika
1 ; but Jyotsnadi is not again expressly said to be a ' specimen
list '. Bhlnu Dikthita, the son of Bhanoji, in his commentary on
Amara • adopts his father's view and refutes that of Muku1a. The
latter obtains the initial long vowel from the very fact that the
word itself is so pronounced by Pal).ini in iv. 2. 22; but this gives
,.,
us Agrahdym:a£ as a ready-made word at once and Mukuta had to
assign some reason why the word should have been again included
in the Gauradi list in Pan. iv. 1. 41. Mukuta's explanation is that
PAJ;Lini thereby intends to show that the feminine termination in
Agrahdym:ai is not dropped in compounds. But Bbanu Dik,bita
replies by observing that the Gauradi list was never intended for
the purpose and that as regards the accent we can get it otherwise.
Bhanu Dtk,hit's own explanation or that of his father BhaHoji
also dispenses with the necessity of including the word in the
Gauradi list as they obtain the feminine suffix i by Pan. iv. I. 15;
and so in replying to Mukuta he observes at the end that the' inclu-
sion of the word in the Gauradi list is questionable. ' Thus if we
suppose Amarsinha to be correct and accept either BhaHoji's or
Mukuta's derivation of Agrahayani we shall have to hold that the
wo. rd in question was either .wrongly included or subsequently
inserted in the Gaunidi list and that PaQ.ini, who knew the word
forgot to insert it in the Prajnadi or the Jyotsnadi list. Both the
explanations are again open to the objectiQn that in this instance
the Nak.thatra is named after the full-moon as against the usual
method given by Pal).ini in iv. 2. 3.
The whole of this difficulty, however, vanishes, if we give up
the notion, that the full moon night in the month of Margasllirl!ha
might have commenced the year at one time and that the name of
the Nakehatra as given by Amara must be derived from the name
of the full-moon. There is no express authority in the Vedic works
to--support such a theory and a closer examination of Pal).ini's
stltras pom"b tn the same conclusion. Months in the Hindu calendar
receive their namts--from the full-moon nights occurring in them;
and the characteristics of-a month are the same as those of the full-
moon night after which it is named. If the full-moon night in
Margashtrtha was, therefore, ever the new~year's night then the
month itself would have come to be properly called the first month
• See p, 62 of the Bombay Ed. of Bhlnu Diluhita's c:om. on Amara.