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  • adhikārī ca sambandho viṣayaś ca prayojanam |
    avaśyam eva vaktavyaṁ śāstrādau tu catuṣṭayam ||
    (Unknown Source; cited in the Amṛta-ṭīkā to Hari-nāmāmṛta-vyākaraṇam: Maṅgalācaraṇa, 1)

    “The eligible person (adhikārī), the relationship (sambandha), the topic (viṣaya), and the purpose (prayojana)—these four must be stated at the beginning of a śāstra.”

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  • ṇiḥ preraṇādau |
    (Hari-nāmāmṛta-vyākaraṇa: 787)

    “[The pratyaya] [ṇ]i [is applied after a dhātu] in [the sense of] preraṇa (causation) and so on.”

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  • bhāvini bhūta-vad upacāraḥ |
    (Kātantra-vyākaraṇa: 26; cited in the Amṛta-ṭīkā on Hari-nāmāmṛta-vyākaraṇam: 859, Krama-sandarbha-ṭīkā on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 3.21.25)

    “The figure of speech in the case of the immediate future being [spoken of] as if in the immediate past [i.e., there is a figure of speech in which something that is just about to a happen is spoken of as having already happened].”

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  • bahutra prāptau saṅkocanaṁ niyamaḥ |
    (Vṛtti on Hari-nāmāmṛta-vyākaraṇa: 242)

    “A niyama is a restriction where a sūtra would apply in many places.”

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  • anya-tulyatva-vidhānam atideśaḥ |
    (Vṛtti on Hari-nāmāmṛta-vyākaraṇa: 54)

    “An atideśa is treatment [of something] as being equal to another [thing].”

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  • kartavyatvenopadeśo vidhiḥ |
    (Vṛtti on Hari-nāmāmṛta-vyākaraṇa: 47)

    “A vidhi is a compulsory instruction.”

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