Review of MW abbreviations

[funderburkjim]

Due to various recent discussions on abbreviations in MW, such as #45, I've attempted a thorough review of this topic. In the process, several hundred coding changes have been made.

The results are in the mwabbreviations directory of this repository. The readme file there describes the files. The compare.txt file has the most comprehensive overview; some clues to reading this file are in the readme mentioned above.

[funderburkjim]

Question on Vārttika

There are many cases where Vārttika is marked as an abbreviation in the MW digitization. But this markup is surely flawed. Before I can undertake to improve the markup, I need to have someone (@SergeA or @drdhaval2785 ) explain how to read these references.

There are over 1000 instances in the digitization where markup such as <ab>Va1rtt.X</ab> appears. X represents the extra information contained within the scope of the <ab> tag.
Almost all of these have a nearby mention of a Panini sutra, either before (more common) or after the mention of Vārttika.

The following appears to be the relevant meaning Vārttika:

n. an explanatory or supplementary rule, critical gloss or annotation (added to a grammatical or philosophical सूत्र and defined to be " the exposition of the meaning, of that which is said, of that which is left unsaid, and of that which is ill or imperfectly said " ; the term वार्त्तिक is, however, especially applied to कात्यायन's critical annotations on the aphorisms of पाणिनि's grammar, the object of which is to consider whether पाणिनि's rules are correct or not, and to improve on them where this may be found to be necessary ; and also to similar works on various matters by कुमारिल, सुरेश्वर &c ; cf. तन्त्र-व्°, श्लोक-व्°)

[funderburkjim]

Examples where Vārttika appears without any extra information

hw = dAruvaha
<ls>Pa1n2._6-3_,_121</ls> <ab>Va1rtt.</ab>

hw = drORa
<ls>Pa1n2._5-1_,_52</ls> <ab>Va1rtt.</ab> <ls>Pat.</ls>

hw = kazwAya
<ls>Pa1n2._3-1_,_14_;_and</ls> <ab>Va1rtt.</ab> <ls>Vop._xxi_,_10.</ls> 

[funderburkjim]

Examples where Vārttika is followed by a number

hw = kavarapucCa
<ls>Pa1n2._4-1_,_55</ls> <ab>Va1rtt._2.</ab>

hw = parisOvIram
<ls>Pa1n2._6-2_,_33</ls> <ab>Va1rtt._1</ab> <ls>Pat.</ls>

hw = duHKajAta
<ls>Pa1n2._4-1_,_52</ls> <ab>Va1rtt._5</ab> <ls>Pat._;_vi_,_2_,_170.</ls> 

[funderburkjim]

How to read the examples?

Again, the first question is simply how to read such examples as above. For instance, does Varttika always mean the same thing in these examples? or does it depend ? Should Varttika be treated as a literary source or an abbreviation. or does it depend ? In cases where it should be treated as a literary source, is it always THE SAME literary source, or, is it sometimes one source and sometimes another source?

[drdhaval2785]

To put things in perspective,

1. Panini wrote Ashtadhyayi.
2. Katyayana wrote vArttikas on them to supplement whatever was missing in AS.
3. Patanjali in his Mahabhashya (MB) examined the validity of vArttikas and accepted or rejected them.

Varttikas have not come down to us as separate book. They are preserved only as quotations in MB. So for referring to a vArttika, usually people say - look for this vArttika in MB under the Paninian sutra A.B.C.

The same is followed by MW.

E.g. kabarapucCa Here 'कबरमणिविषशरेभ्यो नित्यमिति वक्तव्यम्' vArttika is mentioned in MB under 4.1.55. There are more than one vArttika mentioned in this sUtra in MB. So they are referred to by a number. If there is only one vArttika, no numbering is needed.

So the reference is Pan. 4.1.55 vArttika 2.

See http://ashtadhyayi.com/sutraani/4/1/55 under Mahabhashyam.

कबरमणिविषशरेभ्यो नित्यम् - (भाष्यम्) कबरमणिविषशरेभ्यो नित्यमिति वक्तव्यम्। कबरपुच्छी, .....

[drdhaval2785]

Pat at the end of some reference is referring to Patanjali, the author of MB.

[gasyoun]

There are more than one vArttika mentioned in this sUtra in MB. So they are referred to by a number.

Oh that's why there is 2...

Pat at the end of some reference is referring to Patanjali, the author of MB.

That means a useless addition?

[SergeA]

That means a useless addition?

You are free to call Patanjali's Mahabhashya "a useless addition", but it was not so for Monier. When he mentions Pat. this means he considers some info provided in the Pat. commentary to be useful.

how to read such examples as above.

Pāṇ. is a 1st level independent source. Pāṇ. sūtras are very brief, few words in each. It is referenced by the book-chapter-sūtra number.

Vārtt. is a 2nd level source, dependent on Pāṇ. Vārtt. are short explanations or additions to the sūtras, with few sentences divided in numbered paragraphs under each sūtra. It is referenced by Pāṇ. sūtra number and Vārtt. paragraph number.

Pat. is a 3rd level source, dependent on Pāṇ. & Vārtt. Pat. is a verbose comm. with large passages, explaining both Pān. sūtras and Vārttikas. It is referenced through Pān. sūtra and Vārtt. numbers, which it comments.

There can be also 4th level source (as Pradīpa, a comm. on Pat.), 5th level source (as Pradīpa-uddyota, comm. on Pradīpa) and so on.

I read the examples above in this way: Pāṇ. 6, 3 121, Vārtt. = see Vārtt. commentary to Pāṇ. sūtra. Pāṇ., 5, 1, 52, Vārtt., Pat. = see Vārtt. and Pat. comm. to the Pāṇ. sūtra OR = see Pat. comm. to Vārtt. to this sūtra. Pāṇ. 3,1 14; and Vārtt. = see Pāṇ. sūtra AND also see Vārtt. comm. to this sūtra. Pāṇ. 4, 1, 55, Vārtt. 2 = see the 2nd Vārtt. comm. to the Pāṇ. sūtra. Pāṇ. 6,2,33, Vārtt. 1, Pat. = see Pat. comm. under the 1st Vārt. comm. to the Pāṇ. sūtra. Pāṇ. 4,1,52, Vārtt. 5, Pat. ; 6,2,170 = See Pat. comm. under Vārtt. 5 to the sūtra 4.1.52 and also see the sūtra 6.2.170

[gasyoun]

Pat. is a 3rd level source, dependent on Pāṇ. & Vārtt.

Thanks for the detailed explanation with examples.

There are a few cases (such as mfn, cl., P., etc.) where the abbreviation of the text is implied by some other markup than in the digitization.

Like..

[NOTE: used in VLEX] [NOTE: USED IN ]

Add to readme :) Is Lex different than the VLEX research?

[funderburkjim]

e.g. Pāṇ. i, 4, 52, Kāṡ. or Pāṇ. vi, 4, 16, Siddh., where the reference actually points not to Pāṇ. but to the explanations of Kāś. and Siddh. on the Pāṇ. ṣūtras.

Just bringing this comment from #45, as it provides an additional example of how to read.

Presume Kāś. = Kāśikā-vṛtti

and Siddh. = Siddhānta-kaumudī

kāśika (from mw entry): (with or without vṛtti) " the Comm. composed or used in kāśi ", N. of a Comm. on Pāṇ. by vāmana and jayā*ditya.

[funderburkjim]

Appreciate the helpful explanations above!

Will have to think how to mark these in mw.xml in a helpful way. Definitely open to suggestions here. Maybe I'll attempt an anthology of variations, which could be useful in developing a scheme for better coding than current.

[funderburkjim]

Kāśikā-vṛtti, Siddhānta-kaumudī these works in mwauthorities pāṇini , patañjali and kātyāyana appear as authors in mwauthorities.

Interestingly, Mahabhashya and Varttika do not appear in mwauthorities; it must be that we should infer Mahabhashya when Patanjali is mentioned. And, similarly, we should infer Katyayana when Varttika is mentioned.

varttika appears in ACC in three instances, but this seems to be the one we are interested in: vārttika gr. by Vararuci i. e. Kātyāyana. Oppert II, 6422. C. II, 4925.

[funderburkjim]

Add to readme :) Is Lex different than the VLEX research?

lex and vlex are two tag names used in mw.xml markup. I'm to blame for the particular choice of tag names. lex is used to enclose gender information for substantives. vlex is used to identify headwords as roots, and also to mark conjugation class (1-10) and pada (Parasmaipada or Atmanepada) for verbs.

[gasyoun]

lex is used to enclose gender information for substantives. vlex is used to identify headwords as roots, and also to mark conjugation class (1-10) and pada (Parasmaipada or Atmanepada) for verbs.

Crystal clear now. I do forget now and then some of the not so well documented tags.

[gasyoun]

(See bhúvas, bhūr, pp. 760 and 763) [L=151554]

pp. left unmarked.

Spacing gone after See

Var. (cf. dasyu- [add.]) Kap. (cf. cid-dh° [add.])

add. left unmarked.

In (= Gk. Λαρικη of Ptolemy) I guess we have no tag for Ptolemy, so just noted it.

[gasyoun]

@funderburkjim gad [cf. Lith. gadijos, zadas, zodis, giedmi; Pol. gadaé; Hib. gadh.] [ID=62868.1]

Pal. to be added to abbreviations - Polish.

[Andhrabharati]

@funderburkjim / @gasyoun, Is this issue closable now?

[funderburkjim]

Is this issue closable now?

Hard to say for sure. Some of these suggestions have been acted upon, some of them are now hard to decipher. I say yes, let's close this issue.