Thank you Victor,

Very clear, particularly where you wrote:
 . . .
. . .

> Outside of the Sanskrit tradition people have wrongly stated that this
> bahuvrīhi [ jitakāmaḥ] is therefore "based" on the karmadhāraya. I say
> "wrongly" because no such compound ever existed nor indeed would one expect
> to find jitakāmaḥ as a karmadhāraya compound meaning "conquered Kāmadeva".
>
. . .
. . .

> Again, there was never any tatpuruṣa cakrapāṇiḥ meaning "the discus in the
> hand" so it doesn't really make sense to speak of a bahuvrīhi based on the
> tatpuruṣa.
>
. . .
. . .

Harry Spier
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