Momentary-Durative

petegray petegray at btinternet.com
Wed Jul 14 19:29:06 UTC 1999


>>> I don't see any parts of Sans lit in which aorist has resultative
>>> meaning.

If you didn't like my first example, how about:
  Ramayana 2:64:52
  yah s'aren.aikaputram tvam aka:rsi:r aputrakam
 with one arrow you have rendered me childless, who had but one son

(Sorry you don't like my transliteration - it's due to using ASCII)

or Mahabharata 5:3:10
  tad akars.it prajagaram
  that has produced sleepiness

or Mahabharata 2:60:7
  kim nu pu:rvam para:jais.i:t a:tma:nam
 whom you have lost first, yourself....

In all of these examples the result of the action is the point of the
statement - and it is an aorist which is used to describe it.

Peter



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