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पदकार (padakAra)

 
शब्दसागरः
English
पदकार
m.
 (-रः) One who divides or separates compound term.
E.
पद, and कार who makes.
Yates
English
पद-कार (रः) 1.
m.
 Who divides or
separates compounds.
Wilson
English
पदकार
m.
 (-रः) One who divides or separates compound terms.
E.
 पद, and कार who makes.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
पद—कार
m.
 the author of the Pada-pāṭha,
Pāṇ.
Mahīdh.
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
padakāra (IE 8-8), probably, a shoe-maker or a hawker
(Hindī pāukār).
Abhyankara Grammar
English
पदकार 1it. one who has divided the Samhitā text of the Vedas into the Pada-text. The term is applied to ancient Vedic Scholars शाकल्य, आत्रेय, कात्यायन and others who wrote the Padapātha of the Vedic Samhitās. The term is applied possibly through misunderstanding by some scholars to the Mahābhāsyakāra who has not divided any Vedic Sam- hitā, but has, in fact, pointed out a few errors of the Padakāras and stated categorically that gra- mmarians need not follow the Pada- pāțha, but, rather, the writers of the Padapāțha should have follow- ed the rules of grammar. Patañ- jali, in fact, refers by the term पदकार to Kātyāyana, who wrote the Padapātha and the Prātiśākhya of the Vājasaneyi-Samhitā in the following statement--न लक्षणेन पदकारा अनुवर्त्याः। पदकारैनीम लक्षणमनुवर्त्यम्। यथालक्षणं पदं कर्तव्यम् M. Bh. on P. III.1. 109
VI. 1. 207
VIII. 2.16
cf. also अदीधयुरिति पदकारस्य प्रत्याख्यानपक्षे उदाह- रणमुपपन्नं भवति ( परिभाषासूचन of व्याडि Pari. 42 ) where Vyādi clearly refers to the Vārtika of Kātyā- yana ' दीधीवेव्योश्छन्दोविषयत्वात् o ' P. I. 1.6 Vārt. I. The misunder- standing is due to passages in the commentary of स्कन्दस्वामिन् on the Nirukta passage I. 3, उब्वट- टीका on ऋक्प्रातिशाख्य XIII. 19 and others where the statements referred to as those of Patañjali are, in fact, quotations from the Prā- tiśākhya works and it is the writers of the Prātiśākhya works who are referred to as padakāras by Patañ jali in the Mahābhāsya.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
पदकार
पु०
 पदं पदविभागं करोति कृ--अण् उप० स० ।वेदानां मन्त्वपदविभाजकग्रन्थकर्त्तरि