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taG;AnAv Atmanepadam

तङानावात्मनेपदम् ONPANINI 14100

/zAnac, /kAnac, and the /taG, are called bent (/Atmanepada).

Exception to < laHparasmaip....

So the bent affixes are

/zAnac, /kAnac
/ta /AtAm /jha
/thAs /AthAm /dhvam
/iT' /vahi /mahi

What is "/taG"?

/taG is a /pratyAhAra that means the last nine endings in the tiptasjhisipth... list, from /ta to /mahiG.

How do you say bent in sanskrit?

/Atmanepada, which literally translates to "foroneself-word".

Why are these affixes called "foroneself-affixes"?

Because the roots pac and yaj get foroneself-endings when the action is done to benefit its doer, and they get foranother-endings (/parasmaipada endings, bent endings) when the action is done to benefit others.

Are you trying to say that I must always use bent affixes when the action is for self-profit?

No, I was trying to say that only pac and yaj follow that rule. But I failed to get myself understood. Kindly accept my apologies.

So when must I use the bent endings?

When grammar rules say so. As for instance bhAvakarmaNoH.

So if a king tells a priest, "do this sacrifice so I can go to heaven, I will give you a thousand cows", and the priest accepts because he's greedy, will the yaj verb in "the priest sacrifices" get for-oneself endings because the priest does the sacrificing to benefit himself?

No, it will only get them if the priest sacrifices to get himself to go to heaven. The main intended result of sacrificing is getting the king to heaven, not making the priest rich.

So we say with the flat ending /tip —

vipro yajati "the priest sacrifices (for the king to go to heaven)"

And with the bent ending /ta —

rAjA yajate "the king gets someone to sacrifice (so that the king will go to heaven)"