6. Ākhyātakaṇḍa (Verb section)

Note

The verb is treated by conjugation class (gaṇa): after the eight sets of endings and their meanings come the bhū class with bhū, paca, gamu and the other model roots conjugated through every tense in the active, the passive and the impersonal, then the rudha, diva, su, kī, tanu and cura classes, and last the desiderative, denominative and causative suffixes. Every form is derived, and the conjugations are set out as tables.

Reading Rachiwong

This section is one of the three that Phramaha Sriporn Rachiwong translated in her Pune thesis Rūpasiddhi: A Study of Some Aspects (1995), reproduced on this site as Rachiwong: Rūpasiddhi (1995). Her rules are headed (K-N), K the Kaccāyana sutta and N the rule’s number in the Thai edition of the Padarūpasiddhi (Bangkok 1984), her base text; her N runs sixteen below the number used on this page (her 408 is 424 here), since the Thai and Sinhalese editions do not number the sixteen rules the Burmese text states twice. Her notes compare that Thai edition (Rūp T.) with the Burmese Buddhasāsanasamiti edition (B., the Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana text these pages print) and the Sinhalese Mahārūpasiddhi (S.). The footnotes below record where this translation’s text or construal differs from hers, and nothing more; her own translation and notes are on her page.

The endings, tense by tense

The first part of the chapter takes each set of endings with its meaning and conjugates the model root bhū through it; the ranges are Rūpasiddhi numbers.

flowchart LR
  V(["Vibhattividhāna 424–475"]) --> P["vattamānā 424–449<br/>the persons and voices, and the present of bhū"]
  V --> I["pañcamī 450–452"]
  V --> O["sattamī 453–454"]
  V --> H["hiyyattanī 455–457 · sabbadhātuka 458"]
  V --> Pk["parokkhā 459–467<br/>with the reduplication rules"]
  V --> Aj["ajjatanī 468–471"]
  V --> F["bhavissantī 472–473"]
  V --> Kl["kālātipatti 474–475"]

The conjugation classes

The second part conjugates model roots class by class, bhū first and at length; the gaha class is folded into the kī class. The ranges are Rūpasiddhi numbers.

flowchart LR
  R(["Vikaraṇavidhāna 476–527"]) --> B["bhūvādi 476–508: a<br/>bhū and the roots with vuddhi, the tuda group without it,<br/>the hū group and the reduplicating juhoti group"]
  R --> Ru["rudhādi 509: a with a niggahīta · rundhati"]
  R --> Dv["divādi 510–511: ya · dibbati"]
  R --> Su["svādi 512: ṇu, ṇā, uṇā · suṇāti"]
  R --> Ki["kiyādi 513–519: nā, with gaha · kiṇāti, gaṇhāti"]
  R --> Ta["tanādi 520–524: o, yira · karoti, kubbanti"]
  R --> Cu["curādi 525–527: ṇe, ṇaya · coreti"]
  R --> Dh["Dhātuppaccayantanaya 528–544<br/>desiderative, denominative and causative verbs"]

Sections

• Bhūvādigaṇa: Vibhattividhāna (The bhū class: the endings) (424–475)
• Vikaraṇavidhāna (The class suffixes) (476–508)
• Rudhādigaṇa to Curādigaṇa (The other classes) (509–527)
• Dhātuppaccayantanaya (Roots with derivative suffixes) (528–544)