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sāsanakaroti

sāsanakara

present participle or agent noun from sāsana + karoti

1. following the instructions; practising the teaching; complying with the orders (of); lit. doing teaching

Built from

• sāsana — root · teaching, doctrine
  From √śās 'command, instruct'. The noun refers to the Buddha's teaching or monastic rule.
• ka — prefix · intensifying or agential
  Here part of the agential formation sāsanakara-, marking one who performs the action.
• karoti — stem · does, makes
  3rd person singular present indicative of √kr 'make, do'. Cognate with English 'craft' and Latin 'creare'.

Analysis. sāsana (teaching, doctrine) + karoti (does, makes). The compound sāsanakara- means 'one who does the teaching' or 'one who practices it'; sāsanakaroti is the 3rd person singular present indicative form of the verb sāsanakara√kr, 'performs the teaching'.

Etymology. sāsana is from √śās (Sanskrit śāsati 'commands, teaches'), cognate with English 'say' and Latin 'sensus' (feeling, sense); karoti is from √kr 'make, do', cognate with English 'craft' and Latin 'creare'. The combination fuses the concrete sense of issuing a command with the sense of carrying it out or enacting it.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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