264 Rajendralala Mitra— On Gonikdputra and Gonardiya. [No. 3, 
The question now is, whether the half s'loka quoted is really a quota¬ 
tion, or a summing up of the argument ? The argument led to the conclu¬ 
sion that the logical form should be matkapitrika and not makatpitrika, 
and the last is pronounced to be the right form on the authority of Gonar¬ 
diya without any argument in support of it. This is not the way in 
which Patanjali advances his opinion. He is invariably very careful in 
fortifying his position by the citation of all the rules that bear upon 
it. Nor does he break out into a half verse in giving his conclusion. 
"Whenever he cites his own karikds or ishtis he invariably immediately 
after paraphrases them in different and, what comes to be, easier language. 
Nothing of the kind has been done here. Further, the question at issue 
is the use of the affix akach, and nothing in the prose remarks has been 
said about the initial vowel becoming a udatta, but the verse quoted refers 
to it, and that shows that the verse is a quotation, and that, in order to 
preserve the integrity of his quotation, Patanjali had to take it as it stood. 
The particle tu “ but ” also suggests that the opinion about to be quoted was 
opposed to the conclusion arrived at before. Had Patanjali improvised the 
verse for the occasion, he could have easily written it without reference to 
the accent on the vowel. It is true that the word Gonardiya here in Dr. 
Goldstucker’s photolithographs is not followed by that conjunction ; but in 
Dr. Ballantyne’s edition from which the passage has been quoted below, as 
II ?rfT I I «T«T 
^ si Cs 
■qT?r , *r i i i 
*rif^Pn%T II | I «T?T 
fst^rr^rffT i i II 
l I %T *T I 3J- 
fqgBff: yfcT I WH ^fc^eTTfr W*TT Sffaw.fTSrKift 
vj 
M*f: vr^jr I ^nPCSPFTfq fafVwt JIFTfm yfH I 
r|^ [ O. \ VO ] Tfft I ^TfT 
Vi <5 •«. 
i ^^T5j"»nT i fanr i i 
?r<r ii ^ i 
^ t i T^Tf^r i «remT^- 
■QtFir^TSj fpiK II JfT*r<f^^T^ I 
7T tot i 
s vi 
Ballantynit Edition, pp. 469 /. 
